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This falls in the category of conspiracy theories, I think.
This is not exactly 100% Supernatural related, but it does belong here somewhere... One of my favorite poets is Charles Algernon Swinburne, and ever since I saw his name, I knew there was something fishy with it. However, when I started to think about it really hard last night, I came up with a discovery.

C H A R L E S Has 7 letters in this part of his "name".
A L G E R N O N Has 8 letters in this part of his name.
S W I N B U R N E Has 9 letters in this part of his name.


If I change the E's in his name to 3's, this is what happens.
CHARL3S
ALG3RNON
SWINBURN3

Using the 7-8-9 values, I count from the first 3, starting with 1... so
3 is 1, S-2, A-3, L-4, G-5, E-6, R-7
So we have R for the first part of this riddle.
Now, counting from the second 3 (in ALGERNON), we count 8 away, starting with the E again. I found that the 8th value was I .
Following the same mechanics, we determine the third value from the third E, which equals A.

Now, in order to do this, you have to take the R and make the loop into a jagged R, connecting it in the middle of the first stem, so it looks geometric and pointed. Then write the I on top of it, in the center. Take the A and write it on top of your I, with the point of the A in the center again. You can write the A as it is pointed or flatten out the top of the A to make it squarish, it doesn't matter because it makes the same lines, but the pointed A (instead of the squarish A) makes the lines the same.
Turn your square box with the letters R,I, and A written on each other and turn it 90 degrees. Repeat. Turn again, repeat. Turn once more, repeat.

What you come up with is an 8-pointed-star in a box.

Now, looking at this, I also took the time to look up one of his first works. "ATALANTA IN CALYDON". Using the same principles and squaring out all of the letters, turning 90 degrees when I came upon a new word, I came up with the same exact thing-- an 8-pointed-star in a box.

I'm trying to continue with this study. I'll let you know what I come up with.

What is the name if the science that decodes things the way you did?