Finding Serena Baliff





My name is Callista Baliff. Some of you may know by now that my sister Serena has gone missing. Last anyone heard from her was a week ago, April 19th. The last thing she left was a voicemail to me and a post on this blog.

After the voicemail I called the police (attached below), I knew something wasn’t right. Because she’s an adult they didn’t take her disappearance serious at first. They told me she probably went on a trip or decided she didn’t want to answer the phone. I contacted her college about it, and she missed a few days of classes. I asked her friend Kait Sidhe to go visit her place. No one answered the door, and apparently when Kait tried the door it just opened. No sign of forced entry according to the police, nothing stolen (that they could tell), and everything someone would take on a vacation still there. Credit card, clothes, phone. She left her phone. The police say she might have run away. Yeah, right.

I know her better than anyone. She wouldn’t run away.

When I told the police this they said that I should consider the possibility she left everything and disappeared because she “did something drastic”.

She wouldn’t kill herself either.

I don’t give a fuck what anyone says, she wouldn’t run away and she wouldn’t jump of a bridge or whatever Floridians do when they want to die. That’s bullshit, and anyone who knows her will agree. I mean, the voicemail doesn’t sound particularly suicidal, does it?

If the Sarasota police won’t do shit to find her then I will. She left me the voicemail for a reason. So now I’m in fucking Sarasota, in Kait’s house with her weird cat, posting on Serena’s fucking blog. Here we fucking go.

This is the voicemail she left.



 [Voicemail transcript:]
Figures you’d call non-stop then not answer when I call back. Callie, listen. I don’t have long but I’ve found it. At least, I think I have? I don’t want to jinx it, but I feel so close. I mean, Shelby (sp?) was a bust but— Whatever, I’m gonna change the freaking world here, I just need- …sorry. It doesn’t matter, I’m just calling to tell you I’m figuring it out. I’m not crazy, I know I’m not. Just… keep an eye out, I guess. I think someone is, well, I’m probably imagining it, I haven’t slept but it feels like— [voice mail end]

Any locals know what she talking about? What is Shelby?

Share this post and Serena’s picture and voicemail, tell anyone you know in the area or out what happened, spread the word. Whoever took her is going to fucking pay.

If you have any information, tell me now.

Callie Baliff


(941) 763-5080
CallistaBaliff@gmail.com

I FOUND A LEAD

The Selby Library was a waste of time but I found something at the garden. I was confused at first because it didn’t seem like anything there would be helpful. I was wondering around for almost an hour asking the staff about my sister but no one remembered anything. Then some weird lady walked up to me and asked me if I knew Serena because apparently we look alike.

We really don’t.

But fuck if it led her to find me I don’t care.

She gave me this book on Victorian flower language and said Serena left it and she hadn’t had a chance to return it to her.

I wanted to ask her what her name was or if she knew anything else but she just walked off when I was flipping through the book and I couldn’t find her.
This lady was pretty uninspiring, it wasn’t a face you would easily remember but she had this dead look in her eyes when she was talking to me. It was downright unnerving.

If any of you see some brunette woman working at Selby Gardens please try and get her name. She looked like she was in her forties or something. Wore too much makeup.

Anyway Serena’s book had a note in it. I’ll attach it down below. I don’t know what any of it means but I found something of hers. Something to finally go off on. I thought about giving it to the police but with the way they blew me off last time I think I should follow this myself.

I didn’t know that Serena was so interested in flowers, but it makes sense with all of the semiotics nonsense she was studying. This might have been what she meant in that voicemail, it was the last place she was seen. Some of the shit in this book is circled and checked and I’ll post scans to see if any of you can figure out what the hell it means.

The note in the book is even more fucking confusing because nothing my sister ever looked into ever made any damn sense. These look like lab notes. What is it doing in her flower book? Why would she care about any of this in the first place?

It mentions Myakka, which I found out is the name of some state park that isn’t too far from here. It is outside Sarasota city limits so the police would be too lazy to get off of their asses and drive there anyways. I guess my next move is to head out to the park and see if anyone has seen her.

I have scans of the book and this weird lab note below. Let me know if you have any luck figuring it out.


Myakka Investigating


Thank you @Emrys for the tip about the Amber Alert in Myakka. There were enough clues to warrant going there so I went to check it out. Finding something in that massive park was insane. I think I visited the park like six times and asked every person who works at Myakka a million questions. No one knows anything. No one has seen Serena and the security camera feed is deleted after two weeks so I doubt we will find anything. I’m still having them comb through it though.

When I was walking around I managed to find a carving that said “B.B + G.H”.

It has the same initials as the missing persons report, which is either a serious find or just a fucking coincidence. Given how many teenagers come out here and mark up the trees, I’m scared that it’s the latter.

I’m going to keep looking through the endless amount of trees and hope to god I find something of Serena’s. She always forgot her stuff everywhere we went, I mean we’ve had to call airlines because she just didn’t think to grab the bag from between her legs. I used to think it was annoying as hell but now I’m thanking every god in every freaking religion that my sister is a forgetful mess. It might be the only reason I find her.

Verity Solimar?

So a lot of you spammed my comments section with ‘reverse image search’ which I didn’t think worked on new pictures but whatever. You were right, I was wrong. That’s why I’ve been posting all of this so thank you. You find what I can’t.

It went back to Bradley Boyd. It wasn’t just a coincidence. And a similar image was posted on a twitter for Verity Solimar. I started reading everything around it and there are some unnerving similarities.

Maybe this is connected to Serena.

Twitter Update #1: Lizzie G

Serena would have been a lot better at deciphering shit like this. I have no idea what it means. The last person who touched the boat will speak no more? The Lizzie G always comes back?
 “When we were going to go up to it some creepy drifter dude told us some weird stuff about it, he just kept saying that the Lizzie G always comes back.”
“I mean when we walked up to the boat we heard this big splash and watched this older guy in raggedy denim walk out from the water carrying a bucket full of tools, and for all we know they could be murder tools. I don’t know how those two kept their cool while he talked basically in riddles to us. Oh, and the creepiest thing he said was the last person who touched the boat will speak no more.”

Twitter Update #2: I'm finding nothing.

Verity’s twitter is a maze of comments and re-tweets. I’ve been sifting through it but so far I’ve just been going in circles. Nothing helpful. Some of her friends are just as invested in finding Bradley as she is so I’ve been looking into all of their accounts as I find them. None of them have posted in a while but they have a lot of strange shit on their pages. Their investigation seemed to be as fucked up and futile as mine is right now. How do that many witnesses disappear overnight? I’ve sent them all messages and I’ll let you know when I get in touch.
@verity 6 hours ago
Olivia, the witness, is also suspiciously missing, and has a sub today@verity replied Even tho she’s a witness it still feels weird to call a teacher by their first name@verity replied Literally all of these witnesses are dead ends how is this happening@madison replied Omg what if they’re literally all dead@verity replied Madison dont even joke about that

Twitter Update #3: Weird texts



Holy shit. What is this?



What the hell are they talking about? @Ashley sent this in. She said that there was a crazy report for Donovan but a body wasn’t recovered. Most of the evidence apparently couldn’t be tied to anything so he is still an open case. Right now his cause of death is that he just fed himself to an alligator. No one would just do that, there has to be a reason behind it. These messages were apart of said evidence but according to her father it was dismissed as a cruel prank.

It probably wasn't easy to get this. Thank you.


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