The Diary — Old Hoax or New or Not a Hoax at All?​

[Herlock Sholmes]

No, it's that he works through you.

That ludicrous statement says far more about you, Scott, than it does about me.

[Lombro2]

It was a second hand report related to a third person around Christmas 1992.

It tells us nothing about when the original event happened.

Unfortunately for you, Mr Hopelessly Confused (
or more like Mr Hopelessly Trying To Confuse), it probably happened March 9, 1992.

[Herlock Sholmes]

It was a second hand report related to a third person around Christmas 1992.

It tells us nothing about when the original event happened.

Unfortunately for you, Mr Hopelessly Confused (
or more like Mr Hopelessly Trying To Confuse), it probably happened March 9, 1992.

The only reason why Christmas 1992 was mentioned in one of the varying accounts is due to pure mathematics, because it was two months after the APS store opened (assuming it opened on 26th October 1992 as claimed) and Tim and Dodgson both said that they thought that they were told about the diary a month or two after that opening. There is nothing in the story, in other words, which suggests that it did in fact occur at Christmas, just a recollection that it happened soon after the APS Bootle store opened. But you've ignored the fact that the story told by Tim in 1994 didn't involve the APS Bootle store at all. It involved a pub.

As for the "original event", yes Mike Barrett is known to have telephoned Doreen Montgomery on 9th March 1992. That, as far as we know, is the original event in this story. Then the next thing he did was seek out a Victorian diary with blank pages