Page 0

**The inside front cover** of the So Joana Book is also known as Page 0. It contains many drawings and coordinates and is considered one of the more important pages in the book.

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The first thing on the first page is a signature that reads "G. B. Vanderbanman 1838." In pen, a couple of ＋ symbols, a △ symbol, and a couple of lines that intersect with each other, usually taken to be a map of some sort.

* 'Around the World in 2000 Pictures' was released in the 1950's, so whoever wrote the signature and date was not referring to the date of publication

on a youtube video, 'lost cherokee gold cave?', one commenter says:

'This is where the vanderbanman resides it is local tallulah legend that the beast was captured and exiled to live in this cave for eternity after wiping out several local families including his own. Think I'm kidding look him up'

there do not seem to be further mentions of this online

Someone pretending to be Ira Bryant also left several comments under this video, mentioning a story about the cave. Ira Bryant is the creator of the 'Who Killed Harry' film on Ricky's channel.

The cave video is by a channel named 'gary BB', matching the 'G. B' initials.

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On the next page a list of five coordinates:

* 33°25′21⅓″ 82°07′10⅓″ (Fort Gordon, Georgia)
	+ more specifically, a manmade pond at the bottom of a stairway at soil erosion lake
* 32°22′31⅔″ 80°26′15″ ☥ (Hunting Island Lighthouse)
* 33°45′39⅔″ 84°23′32½″ (Quilt of Origins, Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, Georgia)
	+ the statue here is notable for being damaged in the centennial Olympic park bombing
		- The bomber also bombed an abortion clinic and lesbian bar in Atlanta, and another abortion clinic in Birmingham Alabama,
		- He hid out in Nantahala National Forest and was arrested in **Murphy, NC**, five years later.
* 35°59′58⅓″ 78°54′38⅔″ (Durham, North Carolina)
	+ next to the railway. some sort of electrical equipment box?
	+ a bridge close by is infamous for being too low and ripping the top off of 18 wheeler trucks
* 35°05′09.13″ 84°02′22.55″ (The Murphy Pyramid, MEDICINEDOWN location)

The coordinates for the Murphy Pyramid also appear as the first card in the ZEBULON video (on the 3 of Diamonds card with Black-Eyed Susan pictured, associated with MEDICINEDOWN), this is also the only coordinate in the book or in the ZEBULON film that uses a decimalized coordinate instead of a fractional coordinate.)

A ⊠ symbol is taken to represent the Murphy Pyramid. An arrow with "50 JOANA" corresponds to a line a 50 degrees from the Pyramid, which intersects with Joanna Bald 18 miles to the north-east. "50 JOANA" was read as "SO JOANA" and gave the book it's popular name. In pencil two arrows are coming out of the symbol, and three arrows at the top edge of the page also seem to be centered on the symbol.

If the line in pen is 50 degrees, the lower pencil line is roughly 193 degrees, probably Nolta church sign, or somewhere in Atlanta

the upper pencil line would be 76 degrees, which is roughly the Durham, NC railroad coord also found on this page

the sketch of the pyramid also bears a strange resemblance to fire tower roofs seen from above

Two lines of code read written in pen:

* NJKUZGJMVNUAGEWVOFXY
* EFBXDMIEYHHAD

This is one of four codes in the book, none of which have been deciphered yet. These lines of code are 33 characters long (20 characters and 13 respectively).

One property of this text block is that the letters can be separated into three groups based on how often they appear.

1- K, Z, W, O, B, I (KZWOBI)

2- N, J, U, G, M, V, A, X, Y, F, D, H (NJUGJMVNUAGVFXYFXDMYHHD)

3- E (E)

then, finding the percent of the total message each letter makes, all letters in the 1 group are 3.03%, all letters in the two group are 6.06%, and all in the 3rd group (E) are 9.09% - relating to the 369 written lower on the page

KZWOBI = 3.03% ADDGHJMNUVXY = 6.06% E = 9.09%

A compass rose symbol is drawn at the bottom of the page in pen. An eye, a hand, and 369 written in pen.

The eye resembles the 'eye key' from page 68, which corresponds to Brasstown Bald. it also consists of a large compass design on the ground, like ALLGOOD

* 369 is the first three multiples of 3 in order
* 369 is used as a checksum in ALLGOOD

If you chart the 5 coordinates in order and then close the shape, an 'x' is formed over a house in Royston, GA, right across from a house with an address number 369