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From:Clerk of the Board To:Mutony, Heather Cc:Lee, Lewis Subject:FW: Unusual White Blood Clots Date:Monday, August 31, 2026 9:59:17 AM Attachments:https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1db96d47-042d-4f46-8676-e66d2f40335f_1592x1868.png image001.png Please see Board Correspondence - Lewis LeeAdministrative Technician - ConfidentialButte County Administration25 County Center Drive, Suite 200 • Oroville, CA 95965T: 530.552.3326www.buttecounty.ca.gov | lelee@buttecounty.ca.gov From: lance dreiss <lancedreiss@att.net> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2026 7:30 PM To: Shared Mailbox Clerk of the Board <pcbs@countyofplumas.com>; Assemblymember.Gallagher@assembly.ca.gov; Senator.Dahle@senate.ca.gov; danpargee@countyofplumas.com; davidhollister@countyofplumas.com; District Attorney <District_Attorney@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Nicolereinert@countyofplumas.com; Kitts, Melissa <mkitts@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Soderstrom, Monica <msoderstrom@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Durfee, Peter <PDurfee@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Ronald Owens <ronald@muzzledtruth.com>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Pickett, Andy <APickett@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Beaudoin, Jarett <JBeaudoin@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Julie Threet <julie4butte5@gmail.com>; Waugh, Melanie <mwaugh@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Teri DuBose <Teri.DuBose@mail.house.gov>; Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Stephens, Brad J. <BStephens@buttecounty.ca.gov> Subject: Fwd: Unusual White Blood Clots Public Record A collection of white clots removed from a single body during embalming. The main purpose of this stack is to provide photographic evidence, mostly released by undertakers John Olooney and Richard Hirschman. The pictorial evidence illustrates white clots they have removed from bodies during the embalming process. Blood is removed from the body to allow for the infusion of embalming fluid. On these occasions, as the blood was being drained, they were able to see clots which had been retained by their filtering systems. Many smaller clots were identified during this process and larger clots have also been removed by John and Richard. Using forceps, they have pulled out the long white blood clots from blood vessels, essential because the presence of the white fibrous clots prevented the free circulation of the embalming fluid and therefore inhibited the embalming process. diana dreiss Begin forwarded message: From: John Campbell from John’s Substack <johninengland@substack.com> Date: August 30, 2026 at 2:40:00 PM PDT To: lancedreiss@att.net Subject: Unusual White Blood Clots Reply-To: John Campbell from John’s Substack <reply+3j31kp&kcryl&&d147e88c779c622865ac579d82713b52143055f41606cafb319cff598546d3 a0@mg1.substack.com> What the photography, video and new research actually shows.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Forwarded this email? Subscribe hereUnusual White Blood Clots What the photography, video and new research actually shows. JOHN CAMPBELL AUG 30 READ IN APP A collection of white clots removed from a single body during embalming. The main purpose of this stack is to provide photographic evidence, mostly released by undertakers John Olooney and Richard Hirschman. The pictorial evidence illustrates white clots they have removed from bodies during the embalming process. Blood is removed from the body to allow for the infusion of embalming fluid. On these occasions, as the blood was being drained, they were able to see clots which had been retained by their filtering systems. Many smaller clots were identified during this process and larger clots have also been removed because the presence of the white fibrous clots prevented the free circulation of the embalming fluid and therefore inhibited the embalming process. Just what are these clots and why were they not seen before 2021? I have produced videos where I show photographs of these white blood clots and the videos are not taken down by YouTube. They are demonetised though, and I think this results in reduced promotion by the YouTube algorithm. Substack is an ideal medium to present high resolution photos, that in my view cannot be ignored. In this video, (with AI generated imagery) I discuss a trilogy of January 2026 preprints investigating unusual long, pale, rubbery structures recovered from blood vessels, principally during embalming. The researchers call these anomalous intravascular casts (AICs). This is a good term as the clots do actually take the form of casts, modelling the shapes of the blood vessels in which they formed. Anomalous clots collected by John Olooney. These are available to any serious scientist who wished to study the nature of these structures. Reports of such anomalous structures have attracted attention since 2021 because embalmers describe them as mechanically and visually different from ordinary post-mortem blood clots. As can be seen in this photograph, the white clots can be long and must be extracted from the blood vessels with forceps. I guess I first heard about these blood clots in 2021, but to be quite honest was fairly sceptical about them. It sounded unrealistic that such bizarre structures could be removed from the intravascular compartment of deceased bodies during the embalming process. This one is 18 inches (about 46 cm) in length. This clot is even longer at 21 inches and was removed from a femoral artery. Video made by John Loony with commentary However, my opinion changed when I was presented with what I considered to be incontrovertible photographic and video-based evidence. These photographs came from embalmers John Olooney in England and Richard Hirschman in the United States. Both supplied me many high-resolution photographs and video clips of these clots. This included video of one being actually pulled out of a femoral artery in a body which was being embalmed after a clinical post-mortem. In my view, these images constitute data. Unlike normal blood clots these anomalous white fibre structures have tensile strength and can be stretched to a degree. I also interviewed Major Tom Haviland several times as he has collected quite a lot of quantitative and qualitative data from undertakers who are actively involved in embalming. His results revealed a widespread and relatively common post 2021 phenomena. Here we see a collection of the white blood clots with the more normal post-mortem red blood clots Embalmers have being been seeing these red clots for decades but the white clots are new and anomalous. This is a good example of casting, with the white clot adopting the internal shape of the blood vessels in which they formed. This looks very much like the bottom of the abdominal aorta as it divides into the right and left femoral artery, taking blood to the legs. The small artery in between is the cast from the median sacral artery, taking blood to the sacrum and coccyx. Again, in this example, the internal shapes of the blood vessels as they branch and divide is clear to see. A long white clot is removed from the femoral artery using forceps. A typical collection of the white blood clots. Some bodies produce extensive collections of white blood clots. Collection of large white clots strained into a bucket. It seems strange that these clots have been demonstrated definitively to exist by the embalming community, but not by the community of pathologists who you might expect to be leading the way on this. However, in this stack we have presented pathological scientific data proving the existence of these anomalous structures in the hope that this will be taken up and properly analysed by the scientific community. Clearly we need to know why these clots are occurring? Who they are occurring in? Are they forming before death, during the dying process or do they develop post-mortem? We need a detailed analysis of their structure and of the level of morbidity and mortality they are causing in our peoples if any. For now they remain an under reported and somewhat mysterious presentation. John’s Substack is free today. But if you enjoyed this post, you can tell John’s Substack that their writing is valuable by pledging a future subscription. You won't be charged unless they enable payments. Pledge your support LIKE COMMENT RESTACK © 2026 John Campbell548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe