Democrats have dropped a batch of “never-before-seen” photos and videos from inside Jeffrey Epstein’s private island — and the internet is absolutely buzzing.
The House Oversight Committee just released new material, giving Americans another unsettling look inside Little St. James, the late billionaire sex offender’s infamous hideaway.
Among the oddities: a dentist’s office packed with strange masks and a chalkboard filled with cryptic phrase, some of which officials decided to black out before the images went public.
Just like every new Epstein document release, the redactions sparked instant speculation. Even though President Trump signed a bill on Nov. 19 to release all federal Epstein documents, this new trove came from a subpoena to the Virgin Islands Department of Justice — and the blacked-out chalkboard is what everyone is talking about.
Surrounded by words like “power,” “deception,” “mirror in face,” “time,” “intellectual,” “political,” “music,” “truth,” and “appears!”, certain lines remain hidden. Older, un-redacted photos of the same chalkboard have been circulating online for years, showing phrases like “dank brain” and “mirror in face” that appear to have been wiped from the official release.
That’s led to a flood of theories. One skeptical user suggested the redactions are more about confusion than secrecy, writing:
“So later, when they ‘Un-Redact’ some photos they can say ‘Fine… here’s a few untouched’… Basically… it’s fodder to throw people off. Redact everything to make it difficult to find anything.”
Another added that the over-redacting might make it impossible for people to guess what actually matters:
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“They likely are redacting a lot of things that don’t need redaction, that way folks can’t identify which redactions would be meaningful to identify.”
Even Joe Rogan weighed in earlier this year. On an episode with NFL star Aaron Rodgers, he stared at the scribbles and asked:
“Power, deception, plants? Does that say plants? I wonder what that means, plants. Like planting people inside organizations? Is that what that means?”
A producer jokingly chimed in:
“Maybe it’s a project name? Project Dank Brain.”
The documents released on Wednesday came from law enforcement in the US Virgin Islands and were originally taken back in 2020 — just a year after Epstein died by suicide in jail.
Epstein owned two private islands in the USVI, including Little St. James, which locals told the New York Times they had nicknamed “pedophile island.”
And in 2022, the US Virgin Islands attorney general reached a settlement worth more than $100 million with Epstein’s estate after alleging that “dozens of young women and children were trafficked, raped, sexually assaulted and held captive in the Virgin Islands at Epstein’s secluded private island, Little St James.”
Alongside the chalkboard photos, the newly released images also show Epstein posing with high-profile figures — including Pope John Paul II — adding more fuel to the internet fire.
The New York Times later reported that Epstein’s last girlfriend was a dentist who even shared an office with one of his shell companies, something that could help explain the mysterious dentist’s chair found on the island.