Profile of the Brookton Highway Chair Shufflers

Perhaps I should have said 'possible profile' as profiling is all about possibilities. If you haven't yet read my previous article about this matter please right click here.

Last week as I traveled to my farm I noticed only one chair placed along the forest stretch of my journey along Brookton Highway. On the chair was placed an effigy, different from the one I noticed the previous week. This effigy was constructed of basically white shades with a blue cushion placed across the stomach region.

It appears from my inquiries that many travelers along this stretch of highway often do not notice the chairs. Three friends who traveled to my farm last week did not notice any resin chairs placed adjacent to the Highway. So last week as I traveled to my farm I noted a newly placed chair, along with a new effigy and I took special care to note it's location.

As two of my friends returned to the city last weekend they stopped nearby the chair, which interestingly enough had not been moved in the last three days. One of my friends took a photo using his mobile phone and the photo is attached to this article here. Your thoughts and ideas are welcome so please kindly place them under the 'comments section' of this article. Collectively we can perhaps work on the profile of the shuffler/shufflers.

My friend said he found the effigy spooky. I'm unsure why, and of course he said he didn't dare to go too close to it. It was interesting to note that the chair had not been shifted during the preceding Friday or Saturday. Until this point I had never considered that there might be a more sinister aspect to this Highway mystery. Though when I zoomed in on the photo I saw that eyes had been placed on the effigy and, to me it appears that the eyes are made from dark colored buttons (can anyone reading here confirm or replace this diagnosis)?

Now how the eyes are made is important in building a profile of the shuffler/shufflers. To me they look like buttons because in my reading of the photo they shine a little. I don't have one of those high res' machines that ones sees the police in police shows on TV use. My daughter thought they were merely painted on and my friend who took the photo was, if you remember too spooked to go close enough to tell.

To me it appears that a certain amount of due care has been taken in the construction and placement of the effigy and perhaps the shuffler/shufflers would have needed around ten minutes or so to organize and arrange the chair and it's effigy. Interestingly enough there are no arms; though at this point I offer no particular explanation for this.

When I traveled home yesterday (a Monday) the chair was still where it had been placed at least six days earlier and of note is that on the weekend just passed it was not moved.

I figure that the shuffler/shufflers must regularly travel the highway and perhaps they work,live and commute between nearby towns; the most likely candidate being the town of Brookton followed perhaps by Beverley and Corrigin. Towns further away are perhaps too far away for very regular commuting.

This makes me think of people who may regularly commute and I came up with farmers' children who may have boyfriends or girlfriends in the city who they like to see often. The very first time I ever spotted the chairs (sometime before Christmas last year) it came to my mind that they were placed by some young 'ferals'. Do you have ferals in USA?

When I started trying to 'think' about this recently one of my first suspects was that the shuffler/shufflers was an art teacher at the Brookton District High School. School teachers working in such proximity to the city often commute, returning to the city on weekends. Other occupations that may regularly commute include farmers and truck drivers of various hues. And I imagine that most truck drivers might be too concerned with their schedules to stop and arrange chairs in the forest.

Noting recently that the chairs had been given the extra dimension of having an effigy added made me consider art teachers or others of artistic persuasion. Though on closer examination the effigy is not as artistically placed as perhaps I, or another arty friend may arrange. Which brings us back to the eyes; if someone has gone to the trouble to sew some eyes onto cloth this would suggest someone who is putting some time into this project and would reiterate the possibility of a regularly traversing feral or an artist of some kind. I think my friend who took the photo considered it to be an armament of witchcraft.

I consider that the shuffler/shufflers is most likely someone young; i.e. under or around the age of thirty though my daughter (interestingly enough) considered the chair shuffling and consequent arrangement and construction of the effigy to have been done by someone middle-aged. Perhaps this says more about her as perhaps she really thinks I am doing it and am trying to play some kind of weird trick on her and others.

I would also say that most modern cars are not big enough to cart plastic garden chairs around in so this too is another important point in considering a possible profile of the shuffler/shufflers. In my daughter's mind this could still place me 'in the frame' as I drive an eight seater passenger vehicle. My daughter also points out that younger people are far more to drive smaller vehicles. Perhaps next time I go near, or have any form of contact with the Brookton High School I will try to ascertain what kind of car the art teacher (if single) drives.

Of course there could be a witchcraft element to the situation and I haven't yet entirely ruled out this possibility either. Though what the spell possibly might be presents all kinds of obscure intentions as contenders.

An entirely new possibility occurred to me yesterday as I drove back to the city. At the intersection of a gravel road and the highway was a Ute (you in USA might call these a pick-up) with a trailer loaded up with what appeared to be, at the time a trail bike and some garden chairs. This opened up a whole new avenue of possibility as trail bike riders traverse this highway every weekend going somewhere or other where events regularly take place.

My car tends to be slower than many vehicles who traverse the highways and as such I knew that some time soon I would be overtaken. The Brookton Highway is reasonably winding and hilly and the hills slow my car down more than most. I thought I might have struck 'pay-dirt' and have the shuffler/shufflers hot on my trail waiting behind me for an opportune, or inopportune moment to overtake me. When the vehicle finally did overtake me it had in the trailer a whole lot of dining chairs though nonetheless the thought that the shuffler/shufflers may be a regular attender of nearby trail events opened a new avenue of possibility. Perhaps even the universe was giving me subtle messages. And subtle messages are something any shaman worth their salt has to be open to.

Like I said earlier the eyes are important. I cannot imagine someone who attends trail events taking the trouble to sew eyes onto the effigy. Obviously I'll have to double back if I spot another resin outdoor chair placed along the highway next time I visit my farm to ascertain how the eyes have been made. My daughter thought they were painted on and interesting that she has never seen me sew buttons but wouldn't put it past me to paint onto cloth.

Indeed if those eyes are painted on has a mouth also been painted on?

Keep posted and I look forward to your input.