U.S. dollar bill folding tricks

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Besides the use of [[United States dollar]] bills as [[currency]], you can find other, more unconventional uses for them, such as folding them (origami) to make all sorts of shapes and forms, including shirts, baskets, [[fish]], and even a toilet.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130216082203/https://origami-resource-center.com/dollar-bill.html Dollar Bill Origami]</ref> [[Magic|Illusionists]] can also utilize them when performing "magic," such as in the well-known self-folding dollar bill trick. 

Even better, you can use your [[pareidolia]] (and [[paranoia]]) on freshly-printed greenbacks to reveal hidden images possibly suggesting that [[9/11 conspiracy theories|9/11 was an inside job]], orchestrated by the government.

==History and images==
The first time this was published on the [[Internet]] was on May 9, 2002, at Allbrevard.com. According to the backstory, five days prior, one of the webmasters discovered that folding a new (September 1998 redesign) $20 bill in a certain way would reveal pictures eerily similar to the World Trade Center and [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] ablaze, while at a [[Fun:NASCAR|NASCAR]] party. (What he [[drugs|smoked]] remains unknown, nor why he was at a NASCAR party.) Five days later, a web page was put up without any initial expectations, but after posting a message on a user newsgroup, the whole thing spread like wildfire. Within ten days, the site had received over one million hits, eventually leading to [[Glenn Beck]] putting it on his show and website, eight days after Allbrevard's creation, which in turn led to the discovery of more hidden images in dollar bills of lower and higher denominations. This is usually coupled with the fact that you have to ultimately fold the bill into an airplane to see the picture and/or that the folded bill has five sides, like the [[Pentagon]].

Without further ado, let the decoding begin:

===1-dollar bill===
($1 bill must be not too new and not too old) Hold dollar bill with [[pyramid]] and eagle facing you. Fold eagle behind the pyramid. If folded exactly in half the two circles will align on top of each other and touching on both sides. Hold up to an old light bulb to see the face of [[Baphomet]] come through the pyramid side. (The eyes will come through in the two circular clouds just below the eye on the pyramid).

===5-dollar bill===
Repeat the same steps as the $20 bill. The result is [http://web.archive.org/web/20150922075152id_/http://www.foldmoney.com/images/5d.jpg the Pentagon before the attacks.]

===10-dollar bill===
Repeat the same steps again. The result is [http://web.archive.org/web/20150922083213id_/http://www.foldmoney.com/images/10a.jpg the Twin Towers on fire.]

===20-dollar bill===
The initial discovery and source of shock and awe.

# Fold a $20 bill in half, so that you see the top half of the reverse side ([https://cdn.instructables.com/FN5/0JGP/FJPYEV6D/FN50JGPFJPYEV6D.LARGE.jpg like this.])
# Fold the left half away from you, as [https://cdn.instructables.com/F6V/NUCU/FJPYEV6P/F6VNUCUFJPYEV6P.LARGE.jpg shown here.]
# Fold the right half so that the burning Pentagon is revealed (see [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/dc/81/38/dc813886e9b9b6966a640c9afe7c27d3.jpg here.])
# Flip the bill over to see the World Trade Center, surrounded by smoke. ([https://cdn.instructables.com/F4A/N915/FJPYEV7A/F4AN915FJPYEV7A.LARGE.jpg presto!])
# Or just mash it a bit and get [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EaX2U2xl8yU/Up3JcX7Hi8I/AAAAAAAAYyE/rTPwGTtWdi4/s400/securedownload-6.jpeg this.] 9 + 11 = 20 (The date of 9/11, twenty dollar bill), and see [[Osama bin Laden|Osama]].

===50-dollar bill===
And again. This time, you get [http://web.archive.org/web/20150922080545id_/http://www.foldmoney.com/images/50c.jpg the building collapsing.]

===100-dollar bill===
All you get this time around is [http://web.archive.org/web/20150923164919id_/http://www.foldmoney.com/images/100c.jpg a bunch of smoke], which looks more like someone played around with the [[Photoshop|MSPaint]] airbrush tool. Just a bunch of smoke, presumably a result of a fallen building, perhaps after being hit with an airplane. When was this dollar bill made? Well before 9/11. So what is with the Twin Towers, in a mass of smoke?

==The secret message that made Glenn Beck stand still== 
This one wasn't discovered until 2006 and it doesn't receive the same attention as the others, but it remains the only truly chilling one to date. It involves the $100 bill.

#Fold the bill so that the "ON" of "ONE" is covered. (compare to [http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/gbeck1.gif this])
#Fold again, covering the "HU" of "HUNDRED." ([http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/gbeck2.gif like so])
#Another fold covering part of "DOLLARS." ([http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/gbeck3.gif see this])
#Finally make one last fold, and with a magic marker, add the following letters to reveal a hidden message:
[[File:Glennbeck100.gif|thumb|500px|center|Coincidence? We think not!]]

==In reality==
People have been discovering all sorts of curious [[coincidence]]s in just about ''everything''. That the Vodafone logo resembles the [[Ku Klux Klan]] blood drop, that the "lb" part of the Marlboro logo is supposed to resemble a [[Lynch mob|dangling]] black man, that typing in "[[NYC]]" in [[Wingdings]] reveals an alleged [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] message or as [[Snopes]] [http://www.snopes.com/rumors/20bill.asp gives us an example of], cutting a few holes in a package of "Land O Lakes" butter and folding the portion with the [[Native American]] girl's knees up just right, it makes it look like she's holding her [[breast]]s.

They also point out how the denominations of U.S. currency higher than a $2 bill feature an engraving of a building surrounded by trees and/or shrubbery on the reverse sides, therefore it isn't difficult to fold the bill in such a way as to create an image similar to that of a burning building, almost ''any'' burning building, with the leaves or shrubbery functioning as the "smoke."

==In art==
A New Orleans artist, Dan Tague, though not a subscriber to this sort of [[conspiracy theory]], has taken to folding U.S. currency in ''very'' intricate patterns to spell out messages from the letters on dollar bills.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100329154359/http://dantaguestudio.com/ Dan Tague's homepage] Archived.</ref> He is skilled enough at this that he was able to fold various bills to read, ''i.a.'', <span style="font-variant: small-caps">"holy shit," "reality sucks,"</span> and <span style="font-variant: small-caps">"we need a revolution."<ref>{{cite web | title=Hidden Messages on Dollar Bills by Dan Tague | website=Bored Panda | date=2011-08-22 | url=https://www.boredpanda.com/dollar-bill-art-dan-tague/ | access-date=2025-04-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Owen | first=Pamela | title=Art of folding stuff: Whizz sculpts dollar bills to leave clever little messages | website=Daily Mail Online | date=2011-09-24 | url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041314/Art-folding-stuff-Whizz-sculpts-dollar-bills-leave-clever-little-messages.html | access-date=2025-04-09}}</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.allbrevard.net/_20bill/ Where it all began.]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080110113656/http://archive.glennbeck.com/news/05172002.shtml"Coincidence or Conspiracy?"] asks Glenn Beck! (Archived.)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080111150014/http://www.foldmoney.com/ Further instructions.] (Archived.)
*[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons  Maddox's say on the matter]

==References==
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