[NOTE: THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT, TITLED “THE TRUTH OF THE RUIZ VIDEO REVEALED!”, HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM THE LURKIN’ LARKS BLOG. IT WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED BY THE DEFENDANT ON THE SEVENTEENTH OF JANUARY BUT HAS SINCE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE BLOG AS PER REQUEST OF THE PLAINTIFF.


PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING WITH DISCRETION, AS IT CONTAINS SENSITIVE INFORMATION THAT HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC IN DIRECT RELATION TO LILITH CONNELY AND THE CASE OF HER DISAPPEARANCE. SOME INFORMATION HAS BEEN REMOVED AS PER THE REQUEST OF THE PLAINTIFF.]


The only way I can think to start this post is…wow. Just wow.


Let me start this off by saying thank you to Officer Will Scott from the Midtown South Precinct, as well as his wife Mrs Mary-Margaret Scott, for their assistance in our investigation into Lilith Connelly’s vanishing on New Year’s Eve. It’s people like you that make investigative journalism possible and be what it needs to be, which is the honest recount of the truth, no matter how absurd or ugly it is. With that out of the way, allow me to fill in the rest of you with the events of The Ruiz Video and what has been hidden from the public. I’m sorry for how long this is, but there is a lot of things we have to discuss so you can get the full picture of the vanishing of Lilith Connelly.


What happens to the video is, for the most part, as Commanding Officer Maven has said to the press and like I summarized in my original Lilith Connelly blog post. However, there are some major pieces from the video that Officer Maven seems to have conveniently left out of any and all of his statements to the press regarding the case. The following are three major points that differ between Officer Maven’s accounts and The Ruiz Video itself:

 

1) The backup dancers (Zoey Anthony, Nathan Mitchell Jr, and Edith Latimer are their names, as you’ll remember) did not exit the stage as the broadcast host entered like Officer Maven has claimed they did. In fact, the news has only reported on Connelly’s disappearance because she’s the one with the recognizable name; in reality, Lilith Connelly, Zoey Anthony, Nathan Mitchell Jr, and Edith Latimer all vanished from the main stage in Times Square that night.

2) Connelly’s “screams”, as Officer Maven has reported to the press, are not screams at all. She, as well as her backup dancers, are all chanting something as they kneel to the ground. This also started at 11:59:51 on New Year’s Eve, a fact that Officer Maven also kept from the press.

3) Valencia Ruiz’s voice is not drowned out in The Ruiz Video at all. It’s clear that she’s repeating what is being chanted by Connelly and her backup dancers.

 

These were some crazy revelations to have while watching The Ruiz Video to begin with, but it gets so much weirder. This is just the tip of the Lilith Connelly iceberg, my friends — strap in, because you’re not ready for what comes next.


Obviously, with these main points, the most interesting is the chant recited by Connelly and her three dancers. If we didn’t watch The Ruiz Video, I doubt we’d ever figure out what they were chanting; it’s thanks to Valencia Ruiz that we are able to get to the bottom of this whole situation. Wherever you are, Valencia, the Lurkin’ Larks thank you.


My brother Rian transcribed what he heard during the chant (his hearing is much better than mine), which reads as follows:


O’ Mother o’ Future, give unto us the will of your lady luck


Okay, cool, not at all weird and kind of freaky to be chanting that on New Year’s Eve seconds before midnight on live television. Now where do we go from here? For those of you who said Google, you would be correct!


I looked up variations of this chant everywhere I could but couldn’t find much of anything other than creative writing pieces that tried to make themselves stand out by making up some weird chant for a cult in their story. At least, I thought they were all making it up, until I found a blog by the name of [BLOG TITLE REMOVED].


This blog is run by Ophelia Hindley, a college student who studies anthropology as a hobby outside of her university work. She specializes in the local cultures and folklore of the New England area of the United States, which includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. For those of you who don’t know, it’s common knowledge that Lilith Connelly was born and raised in Massachusetts. I was unable to find much on her three backup dancers, but Zoey Anthony has an Instagram account that Lilith follows. I checked it for any telling information, and in July earlier last year, she posted a set of images with the caption “home sweet home”. Anthony labelled the location as being within the state of Massachusetts, which means out of the four missing persons, at least two of them are from the same state. All this information may seem unrelated now, but I promise it all has its purpose. This is that “absurd” part of investigative journalism that I mentioned earlier.


Google had picked up on one of Hindley’s blog posts titled [POST TITLE REMOVED], which is a post that covers a relatively small religious group in Massachusetts that call themselves “Methodologists” (not to be confused with Methodists). Methodologists, according to Hindley’s blog post, don’t follow a religious figurehead or some higher power like typical religious movements and cults, but rather follow a methodology (hence the name) of practice. In her post, Hindley includes a statement from a member of the Methodologists that she interviewed about what it means to follow a “methodology of practice”:


“Kids nowadays love to say they’re ‘manifesting’ things: manifesting a new job, a new boyfriend, clear skin before prom, stuff like that. That’s just Methodology made into pop culture. Do you do New Year’s resolutions? […] That’s Methodology, too! That’s what “methodology of practice” means. It’s less about worshipping some higher power to bring you what you want and instead trying to practice a method in which you bring the things you want to yourself” (Hindley, 2022).


The interview goes on to explain how Methodologists go about this methodology of practice. Methodologists basically have a few chants that its followers recite, and these chants mean different things. There’s a total of three main chants that exist within Methodology: luck, love, and fortune. For the methodology of practice to take place, Methodologists recite one of the chants with clear intention. By using a method (reciting the chant), the practice (the intention) will be set in place to happen. Like the quote from before said, it’s a lot like manifesting.


The reason there are so few chants is because of the way that the methodology of practice works; for example, according to Hindley’s interview, you can chant for someone else to experience heartbreak by reciting the love chant incorrectly with the intention of that person experiencing heartbreak. The interviewee was unclear about what it means to chant something “incorrectly”, but we’ll get into that as we discuss what Methodologists from Massachusetts have to do with Lilith Connelly vanishing on live television on New Year’s Eve.


The reason this blog post showed up during my searching is because the interviewee gave Hindley the luck chant to post onto the blog, to encourage people to give Methodology a shot. The luck chant, as it was posted on Hindley’s blog post (transcribed by Hindley herself), reads as follows:


O’ Mother o’ Future, bless unto me the will of your lady luck


Now we can see what that Methodologist meant by “incorrectly”. They’re very small differences, obviously, but apparently in the methodology of practice, that makes all the difference.


How would Lilith Connelly and her backup dancers even know about this chant? I did some digging on that, too, upon getting to this point in my research. Did you know that Lilith’s birth name is Bridget Lilith Bishop-Connelly? Maybe you did, maybe you didn’t. It’s on her Wikipedia page, so many more of you knew about that than I’m aware of. That’s not the important part; what’s important is that name, “Bishop-Connelly”.


Since her humble beginnings with her self-titled EP, Lilith Connelly has always been vocal about her love for her father, Joseph Connelly, and how close they are. As the story goes, Lilith’s mother wasn’t in her life, so Lilith and her father became incredibly close as a result. She has a few songs dedicated to her father, including the one named “A Girl’s Strongest Defense” (you probably remember it as that annoyingly catchy tune that was always playing over the speakers at every store in the mall back in 2017 and 2018). Neither Lilith nor Joseph have ever named Lilith’s mother, nor have they ever talked about her publicly, so it was hard to find any information about her. It took some digging through the public archives available online, but because Joseph Connelly and his wife were legally married and Lilith’s birthplace is public information, I was able to find the identity of Lilith’s mother.


She was a woman named Estelle Bishop, and she was a devout Methodologist who vanished the same day her daughter was born. Like I said before, this iceberg is crazy.


There was very little reporting around the circumstance of Estelle’s disappearance. As far as I could find, only one report was made on it that was posted onto the internet, but it was in one of those Rip-Off Believe It or Not type editorials that posted “too weird to believe” faux articles all the time, so if anyone saw it, they probably wouldn’t believe it in the first place anyway. But just to see if there were any nuggets of truth between the exaggerations and lies of the piece, I read it all anyway.


According to that article, which is titled [ARTICLE TITLE REMOVED], even though she was married to an unnamed man (who we can assume is Joseph, Lilith’s father), Estelle fell pregnant while having an affair. This pregnancy was very difficult for Estelle, as she didn’t want it since it was a reminder of her affair; however, since Joseph was unable to have children, he asked for her to carry out the pregnancy so they could raise a family together. However, this left Estelle incredibly depressed, wishing for a way out of the situation she was now in that wouldn’t hurt her husband or her unborn daughter in the process.

As a Methodologist, Estelle was aware of the chants and different ways in which the methodology of practice worked and knew what doing a chant incorrectly could achieve. Come the day of her daughter’s birth, Estelle supposedly chanted the luck chant. While this was supposedly to bring luck to the birth of her child, after Lilith was born, Estelle completely disappeared in front of her doctor, multiple nurses, and her husband without a trace left in her wake.


The article then poses a question as to what her disappearance means: if she was chanting the luck chant incorrectly, and its effect was to make Estelle herself disappear, then what was her intention in chanting the luck chant incorrectly? The answer seems simple after some thought; after all, Estelle did not want the pregnancy, but her husband wanted to raise the child as if it was his own. If Estelle were to wish for herself to die after having the baby, then that would inherently bring misfortune to her husband and newborn child. To take herself out of the equation while allowing her husband and daughter to not have to concern themselves with something like her body, her intention was to simply disappear.


Now, if you’re like me, you’re probably thinking that all of this is fictional and not something we can trust at all. You’re welcome to think that way, but the most damning piece of this entire article is the person who wrote it.


It was Joseph Connelly himself.


Holy crap, when I saw that name, I had to step away from everything I was doing to take it all in. What a bombshell to learn! Obviously, I don’t know why he wrote this, but all I can figure is that Joseph wanted to tell the story of what happened to his wife and publish it for the world to see what Methodologists were capable of but knew that no mainstream news publications would take it because it’s so fantastical and unreal. But surely the doctor and the nurses would remember one of their patients literally vanishing into thin air before their eyes, right? What happened to them? As well documented Lilith’s life is, knowing what hospital she was born in and what doctor carried out her delivery would take a lot more resources than what I have available to me. But that’s not important right now (but, of course, if you have any information on that, feel free to reach out to us!), because it isn’t Estelle’s vanishing that we care about now. It’s her daughter’s.


All the following is my own speculation but based on everything that I have laid out thus far in this post, I feel strongly that this is the truth of what was shown in The Ruiz Video and what happened to Lilith Connelly in Times Square on New Year’s Eve.


Obviously, Estelle Bishop is gone, leaving Joseph Connelly as a single father to his daughter and future pop star, Lilith. As she grows up, she doesn’t know what happened to her mother other than that she isn’t around anymore. She eventually gets to an age where Joseph can tell her about what happened to her mother on the day of Lilith’s birth, where Lilith learns about Methodologists and the methodology of practice.


Whether or not Lilith was a practicing Methodologist is unclear, but I think she was. It would be the only real connection she has left with her mother, after all, besides any heirlooms her mother incidentally left behind. While connecting with her mother’s faith, she meets Zoey Anthony, who is of the same faith. How do I know for sure that Zoey was a Methodologist, too? The town in Massachusetts that Zoey location-stamped on that Instagram post I mentioned before is Estelle Bishop’s hometown, as well as the town listed in Ophelia Hindley’s blog post about Methodology as the birthplace of the religious group themselves. That seems like circumstantial, but in the caption of her Instagram post celebrating getting to be on television for New Year’s Eve, she posted part of the luck chant, saying she’d “been blessed by the will of her lady luck”. Knowing everything we know now, I can’t in good conscience say that this is just a funny way to say that working with Lilith has given her good luck.


I’m not sure about Nathan Mitchell Jr or Edith Latimer, but I’m sure that they would have been introduced to Lilith and Zoey’s shared religion at some point. Lilith’s three backup dancers had been her backup dancers for a long time; in an interview with [REMOVED] back in 2021, Lilith claimed that she considered the three of them “part of her music family” and couldn’t imagine doing what she does without them.


Now comes the tricky part, which is trying to figure out why this all happened. Why did Lilith want to disappear? The answer is sad (and, again, my own speculation), but I think Lilith missed having her mother. She never even had a chance to meet her. So, instead, she wanted to go to wherever her mother had gone, if she’d gone anywhere that Lilith could find.


I think that Lilith Connelly wanted to vanish. She wanted to find where her mother had gone, and the only way to even have the briefest shot at finding her that was to copy what her mother had done on the day of Lilith’s own birth.


But the New Year’s Eve performance was huge for Lilith and her friends. She couldn’t risk taking away that opportunity from any of them. Seeing as Zoey, Nathan, and Edith all vanished alongside Lilith that night, their plan as to what to do seems clear: do the performance of a lifetime in Tims Square, and then in the last ten seconds of the New Year’s countdown during the ball drop when no one is paying too much attention to them, disappear together without a trace.


It seems like a foolproof plan, but Lilith forgot something very, very important when making it. She’s one of the biggest pop stars of the current generation, with billions of people worldwide that love and care about her. Her disappearance is not going to, and was never going to, just get brushed off as nothing to worry about. The entire world is looking for her right now, wondering where she is, what happened to her, and wondering if she’s even still alive.


There’s another stick in the spokes of Lilith’s plan, too: Valencia Ruiz.


Since December 30th, The Valencia Effect has not posted anything. This is incredibly abnormal, as The Valencia Effect posts bi-weekly, and has been on that schedule for the last six years since it was established. Even when Valencia was going to be gone for any reason, like when she takes a winter break to spend Christmas with her family, she still scheduled posts ahead of time so that her readers wouldn’t be without content. For Valencia Ruiz to suddenly stop posting is a major cause for concern.


Remember the three differences that I brought up at the beginning of this post: Lilith’s backup dancers did not leave the stage, they were all chanting something, and Valencia Ruiz was clearly repeating what they were chanting.


I don’t know how the methodology of practice works if you’re just repeating what someone else is saying without an intention in mind. But being that Valencia Ruiz seems to have also vanished off the face of the earth, and the police have not claimed to have her in custody, I think it’s clear that our missing persons count has reached a total of five people.


And that’s everything I’ve been able to gather about this situation of Lilith Connelly vanishing in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. This came out so much longer than anything I’ve written before, but I had to make sure I included everything that I discovered while investigating. Of course, I don’t think most of you will even believe what I’m presenting to you. I’m not even sure that I believe it myself, but with everything I’ve found, I don’t know if I can look away from all of it. There’s just no logical solution to this mystery. I guess Lilith really did take after her mother in the end, pulling off a magic act that Houdini himself would be jealous of. All I can say is that I hope the families of Lilith Connelly, Zoey Anthony, Nathan Mitchell Jr, Edith Latimer, and Valencia Ruiz can all find peace in this situation.


Stay safe, stay vigilant, stay lurkin’.

Signed, Drew

 

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