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Harold and his team do renovation work on important buildings. He often finds things of archeological significance on jobs. Harold's team is hired to do work on the basement and ground floor of the Reform Club in Pall Mall, which needs to happen late at night when there's not many people around. One night, Harold and team member Rachel are waiting for another team member, Alf, to get back from a coffee run since they need his expertise in plumbing. Harold and Rachel notice that a goth teenager has gotten into the worksite. Thinking he could be a club member's kid who wandered in, Harold tells him that the worksite is off-limits and asks if he's lost. The kid asks Harold if they'd found any of "Leitner's pages", which surprises Harold since he and Rachel had just been talking about a time that Jurgen Leitner had a consultation with them in 1987 in the building just next door to the Reform Club, in which he asked them to dig a hole under his office but got angry and threw them out when they said they would need to get permission from the building's owner first. Harold asks the kid if he was listening in to his and Rachel's conversation but the kid again asks if they've found anything. Rachel asks what he thinks they could have found, and the kid responds by asking them if they can "smell it". Harold realizes that he can smell damp stone and musty paper. The kid grabs a hammer and strikes a wall with greater strength than it looks like he has, and there is a scream from an unknown source. Harold takes away the hammer and tries to subdue the kid before Rachel examines the hole in the wall and sees that there's a room on the other side. Alf returns and Harold and Rachel explain what's just happened, and they also get the kid's name: Gerard, who tells them that his mother knows all about "this stuff". Alf decides to knock down the rest of the wall and see inside the room. They all enter the passage, which Rachel estimates to have been built in the mid-19th century. Harold realizes that they are in the space that Jurgen Leitner had wanted them to dig into. They eventually reach a round chamber with thirteen more passages splitting off from it. In the center of the room is a datestone: Robert Smirke, 1835. Balance and fear". Harold remembers that Smirke was a famous architect, and had built a building on that site which was destroyed during the Blitz. Gerard suddenly runs off down one of the passages and Alf goes after him. Harold decides to follow while Rachel goes back out for help. Harold notices that the tunnel is damp and slimy, and he eventualy slips and falls. As he pushes himself up he sees that doing so leaves a faint red residue on his hand. Harold hears Alf scream in terror and continues on just before Gerard comes running back, holding a book and knocking Harold down again as he passes. Harold thinks he hears something fall in Gerard's wake and as he gets up again he feels something small and smooth, which turns out to be a small animal bone of which there are a few on the ground. Harold gets to the end of the passage where he enters a small room with ancient bookshelves with only a few rotting pages, one with a mummified hand on it. Harold then sees Alf lying dead on the floor, uninjured but with a look of terror on his face and more tiny bones on his body and around the bookshelves. Harold's memory becomes unclear and he gets lost in the passages before making back out, remembering seeing a cobweb-covered stack of papers, a menacing figure, and a feeling of heat and choking on smoke on the way. Harold meets the police who were called by Rachel, and after taking his statement they go to retrieve Alf's body but are clearly disturbed when they return. Gerard isn't seen again and the staff of the Reform Club order Harold's team to rebuild the wall hiding the passages and finish their original work.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha tries to contact many of the people in the story, including Harold, but they all deny the events. Alf's death was ruled a heart attack. Jonathan thinks that Gerard is probably Gerard Keay but he remains impossible to contact. Jonathan would disregard the story if not for details correlating with other statements as well as having found records that Jurgen Leitner did indeed occupy the office when the story said he did, and since some of his books were in that underground chamber there's a good chance he knew about it before renting the office. As for the supposed architect of the passages, Robert Smirke, Tim reports that Smirke's buildings tend to have more reports of the supernatural than others, and after his retirement Smirke would associate with many strange cults and would volunteer to help design church buildings, though he never got the chance to. Since the Institute was denined permission to investigate the locations in the stories, nothing more can be done. As Jonathan tries to conclude the recording, silver worms appear and he runs off to find an extinguisher. Martin is then heard accepting a package for Jonathan from two delivery men.
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Harold and his team do renovation work on important buildings. He often finds things of archeological significance on jobs. Harold's team is hired to do work on the basement and ground floor of the Reform Club in Pall Mall, which needs to happen late at night when there's not many people around. One night, Harold and team member Rachel are waiting for another team member, Alf, to get back from a coffee run since they need his expertise in plumbing. Harold and Rachel notice that a goth teenager has gotten into the worksite. Thinking he could be a club member's kid who wandered in, Harold tells him that the worksite is off-limits and asks if he's lost. The kid asks Harold if they'd found any of "Leitner's pages", which surprises Harold since he and Rachel had just been talking about a time that Jurgen Leitner had a consultation with them in 1987 in the building just next door to the Reform Club, in which he asked them to dig a hole under his office but got angry and threw them out when they said they would need to get permission from the building's owner first. Harold asks the kid if he was listening in to his and Rachel's conversation but the kid again asks if they've found anything. Rachel asks what he thinks they could have found, and the kid responds by asking them if they can "smell it". Harold realizes that he can smell damp stone and musty paper. The kid grabs a hammer and strikes a wall with greater strength than it looks like he has, and there is a scream from an unknown source. Harold takes away the hammer and tries to subdue the kid before Rachel examines the hole in the wall and sees that there's a room on the other side. Alf returns and Harold and Rachel explain what's just happened, and they also get the kid's name: Gerard, who tells them that his mother knows all about "this stuff". Alf decides to knock down the rest of the wall and see inside the room. They all enter the passage, which Rachel estimates to have been built in the mid-19th century. Harold realizes that they are in the space that Jurgen Leitner had wanted them to dig into. They eventually reach a round chamber with thirteen more passages splitting off from it. In the center of the room is a datestone: Robert Smirke, 1835. Balance and fear". Harold remembers that Smirke was a famous architect, and had built a building on that site which was destroyed during the Blitz. Gerard suddenly runs off down one of the passages and Alf goes after him. Harold decides to follow while Rachel goes back out for help. Harold notices that the tunnel is damp and slimy, and he eventualy slips and falls. As he pushes himself up he sees that doing so leaves a faint red residue on his hand. Harold hears Alf scream in terror and continues on just before Gerard comes running back, holding a book and knocking Harold down again as he passes. Harold thinks he hears something fall in Gerard's wake and as he gets up again he feels something small and smooth, which turns out to be a small animal bone of which there are a few on the ground. Harold gets to the end of the passage where he enters a small room with ancient bookshelves with only a few rotting pages, one with a mummified hand on it. Harold then sees Alf lying dead on the floor, uninjured but with a look of terror on his face and more tiny bones on his body and around the bookshelves. Harold's memory becomes unclear and he gets lost in the passages before making back out, remembering seeing a cobweb-covered stack of papers, a menacing figure, and a feeling of heat and choking on smoke on the way. Harold meets the police who were called by Rachel, and after taking his statement they go to retrieve Alf's body but are clearly disturbed when they return. Gerard isn't seen again and the staff of the Reform Club order Harold's team to rebuild the wall hiding the passages and finish their original work.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha tries to contact many of the people in the story, including Harold, but they all deny the events. Alf's death was ruled a heart attack. Jonathan thinks that Gerard is probably Gerard Keay but he remains impossible to contact. Jonathan would disregard the story if not for details correlating with other statements as well as having found records that Jurgen Leitner did indeed occupy the office when the story said he did, and since some of his books were in that underground chamber there's a good chance he knew about it before renting the office. As for the supposed architect of the passages, Robert Smirke, Tim reports that Smirke's buildings tend to have more reports of the supernatural than others, and after his retirement Smirke would associate with many strange cults and would volunteer to help design church buildings, though he never got the chance to. Since the Institute was denined permission to investigate the locations in the stories, nothing more can be done. As Jonathan tries to conclude the recording, silver worms appear and he runs off to find an extinguisher. Martin is then heard accepting a package for Jonathan from two delivery men.
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Jonathan thinks that this story could be an elaborate joke since it's from an educated individual, since many such people look down on the Institute to the point of making a mockery of them with false stories. Additionally, the names of the students are all generic placeholder names from various languages (John Doe, Juan Pérez, etc.). Tim contacts King's College's administration office and finds that while there aren't records of the students, the admissions officer remembers them. As for the teeth in the apple, there's no evidence of supernatural activity related to them, however analysis showed that they came from multiple healthy adults. Sasha also finds that Dr. Rashid Sadana, a teacher of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology for Complementary Therapies at St. Mary's University committed suicide a year prior to the stories events, with his suicide note only reading "Not to be used for teaching".
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Jonathan thinks that this story could be an elaborate joke since it's from an educated individual, since many such people look down on the Institute to the point of making a mockery of them with false stories. Additionally, the names of the students are all generic placeholder names from various languages (John Doe, Juan Pérez, etc.). Tim contacts King's College's administration office and finds that while there aren't records of the students, the admissions officer remembers them. As for the teeth in the apple, there's no evidence of supernatural activity related to them, however analysis showed that they came from multiple healthy adults. Sasha also finds that Dr. Rashid Sadana, a teacher of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology for Complementary Therapies at St. Mary's University committed suicide a year prior to the stories story's events, with his suicide note only reading "Not to be used for teaching".
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Lionel is pulled in last second to help teach tutorials in an Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology class at King's College after a system error allows too many students to enroll. During his first time meeting his seven students, he notices that they are similarly dressed in white shirts and blue jeans, and are extremely quiet until during the class when they ask questions that Lionel finds to be relatively basic for the class. After a discussion about the respiratory system, Lionel realizes that he can hear the students' breathing far easier than normal. This makes Lionel uncomfortable and he is relieved when the class ends. The next time Lionel is scheduled to teach, he calls in sick due to a migraine and his dread for teaching the students again. When he eventually has to go in to teach again, Lionel is further disconcerted by the students sitting in all the same places as before and their synchronized "good morning"s. Lionel also notices that despite the students' apparent diversity, they don't have differing accents. Lionel tries and fails to get someone else to teach the class but eventually becomes used to the students' odd questions and general creepiness, until the time comes for the class to begin using the dissection lab. As nervous as he is, Lionel refuses to leave the students alone with human remains. In the lab, Lionel sees that the students seem more enthusiastic, though their eyes are still as blank as ever. Lionel begins to hear the cracking of bones breaking from any table he turns his back to, but whenever he looks back the bones on the table are still intact. Lionel figures out a way to view a table through a reflection so he can see what's going on, and sees one of the students there hold a radius bone up to his own arm, at which point Lionel thinks he sees the students arm shift and rearrange internally to match the bone. This sight causes Lionel to collapse, which the students don't react to, and when he squeezes his eyes closed in terror he hears the cracking sounds from all around him. When the class period ends, the students thank the prone Lionel for the lesson before leaving, and Lionel thinks the students have become taller than before. From then on Lionel tries to avoid teaching the class whenever he can, and in class Lionel does nothing but answer any questions that the students ask. Lionel hears from a colleague that on the days he's not there, the students still attend the class and sit silently in the classroom. On March 21st, Lionel makes himself join the students in their second dissection lab class since he now knows that they're going to be in the lab either way and he doesn't want to risk losing his job for leaving students unsupervised in the lab. When Lionel arrives he finds that the students have already got their human hearts ready for dissection. Lionel is surprised when the class goes far more normally than usual, but he doesn't try to see if the students do anything strange with the hearts. One of the students then holds up her heart and asks how it pumps blood, and when Lionel starts to answer she clarifies that she wants to know what it looks like and asks "Is it like this?" at which point the heart in her hand begins throbbing and spraying blood. Other students begin to hold up their hearts which begin beating in different ways. Lionel eventually points at the student whose heart's movements most resemble a normal heartbeat, before he leaves the lab and hides in the staffroom, waiting to hear people panicking about the blood-covered lab. After several hours of hearing nothing, Lionel goes back to the lab to find it empty and spotless, though he knows what he saw was real because his shoes have blood splatter and he even has a fellow doctor look at his shoes to verify that the spots really are there. Lionel skips the next few classes without excusing himself but soon finds himself compelled to find out where the students live. From the school records he finds that all seven students live together, and when he goes to the house it looks abandoned. Lionel knocks on the front door and one of the students answers right away and asks if Lionel's there to give them more lessons and specifically expresses a desire to learn more about the liver, staring deeply at Lionel's stomach where his liver would be. A muffled scream comes from inside the house but the student takes no notice, frightening Lionel into running away and calling the police, who tell him that the house in question is vacant. Lionel refuses to see the class again, and when he goes into the classroom after the last day of school he finds an apple with a handwritten note thanking him "for teaching us the insides". Lionel burns the note and cuts open the apple to find a set of human teeth arranged in a smile, which he brings to the Institute though they decline to keep it.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan thinks that this story could be an elaborate joke since it's from an educated individual, since many such people look down on the Institute to the point of making a mockery of them with false stories. Additionally, the names of the students are all generic placeholder names from various languages (John Doe, Juan Pérez, etc.). Tim contacts King's College's administration office and finds that while there aren't records of the students, the admissions officer remembers them. As for the teeth in the apple, there's no evidence of supernatural activity related to them, however analysis showed that they came from multiple healthy adults. Sasha also finds that Dr. Rashid Sadana, a teacher of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology for Complementary Therapies at St. Mary's University
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Carlita loses her job working on a ship whose crew was dissolved, leaving her stuck in Porto do Itaqui, Brazil, until she can temporarily join the crew of a ship headed to England, which she finds to be difficult as she doesn't speak Spanish. She eventually finds such a ship, the ''Tundra''. She meets the captain, Peter Lukas, who tells her that his ship has one open position and that they are leaving at dawn the next day. Carlita goes to the ''Tundra'' in the morning and meets the ship's first mate, Tadeas Dahl, who wears a brass boatswain's call. He gives Carlita the vacant position, that of an ordinary seaman, and they set sail. After spending time on the ship, Carlita begins to notice the rest of the crew's strange behavior. They avoid each other as much as possible, almost never speaking or making eye contact, with the exception of Tadeas, who always gave directions to the crew. Carlita notices that Tadeas never uses his boatswain's call. Carlita also notices that she never sees Captain Lukas on the ship, though she knows he's there since she sees his meals being delivered. Carlita mentions one of the crew members, a Scottish man named Sean Kelly, who seems on edge compared to the others. Carlita later discovers that, underneath the bright paint, all of the shipping containers are rusted in place, which confuses Carlita as the cargo was supposed to be changed at the port. She makes a plan to break into one of the containers to see what's inside. Choosing one whose padlock is weakened the most by rust, Carlita kicks it off in the middle of the night under the cover of high winds. Entering the container, Carlita is surprised to find it totally empty, with no indication that anything had been stored inside. Carlita checks two more containers and finds them empty as well. Wondering why the ship would be transporting empty containers without ever unloading them, Carlita sees crew members emerge from the ship. Thinking she could be in trouble, Carlita tries to act inconspicuously but Tadeas just asks her to come with them. She obeys and follows as they gather up the rest of the crew before going to the lifeboat where Captain Lukas is waiting. Carlita notices that it's an old-fashioned rowboat with a winch system to lower it rather than the modern inflatable life rafts. The crew boards the boat, Carlita with them, and they quietly row away from the ''Tundra''. Carlita looks over the crew and realizes that Sean isn't with them. Tadeas blows the boatswain's call, producing a high whistling that also sounds distant somehow. Before Carlita realizes it, the lifeboat is wrapped in fog despite not being in the right ocean climate for it. Eventually the fog clears and Tadeas blows the call one last time. The crew rows the lifeboat back to the ''Tundra'' and get back aboard, stowing the lifeboat as it was before. Carlita doesn't see Sean again. After this event, the crew begins to socialize and engage in conversation once more, though they all seem unhappy whenever Carlita brings up Sean. Eventually the third mate, Kim Duong, tells her to stop talking about Sean because "it hadn't been an easy choice". Soon they reach Southampton and Carlita leaves the ship. A couple of days later she gets her paycheck, amounting to £25,000, which she thinks is fantastic but decides not to return to the ''Tundra''.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Before the recording, Tim asks Jonathan to rerecord some cases due to errors, but he refuses and mentions that audio recordings are only done for cases "too stubborn to work on anything else". Jonathan finds that the ''Tundra'' is still active under Solus Shipping PLC, owned by Nathaniel Lukas. Due to the Lukas' family's connection to the case, Jonathan can't do any investigation into the case where they are concerned despite the similarities to case 0161301 (13: Alone). Jonathan still mentions that the crew of the ''Tundra'' has been unchanging for the last ten years and there are no records of it loading or unloading cargo anywhere in the UK. As for Sean Kelly, he had disappeared in October 2010 from Felixstowe and was found dead and washed up on the coast of Morocco in April 2011, though evidence showed he had been in the water for only five days.
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Carlita loses her job working on a ship whose crew was dissolved, leaving her stuck in Porto do Itaqui, Brazil, until she can temporarily join the crew of a ship headed to England, which she finds to be difficult as she doesn't speak Spanish. She eventually finds such a ship, the ''Tundra''. She meets the captain, Peter Lukas, who tells her that his ship has one open position and that they are leaving at dawn the next day. Carlita goes to the ''Tundra'' in the morning and meets the ship's first mate, Tadeas Dahl, who wears a brass boatswain's call. He gives Carlita the vacant position, that of an ordinary seaman, and they set sail. After spending time on the ship, Carlita begins to notice the rest of the crew's strange behavior. They avoid each other as much as possible, almost never speaking or making eye contact, with the exception of Tadeas, who always gave directions to the crew. Carlita notices that Tadeas never uses his boatswain's call. Carlita also notices that she never sees Captain Lukas on the ship, though she knows he's there since she sees his meals being delivered. Carlita mentions one of the crew members, a Scottish man named Sean Kelly, who seems on edge compared to the others. Carlita later discovers that, underneath the bright paint, all of the shipping containers are rusted in place, which confuses Carlita as the cargo was supposed to be changed at the port. She makes a plan to break into one of the containers to see what's inside. Choosing one whose padlock is weakened the most by rust, Carlita kicks it off in the middle of the night under the cover of high winds. Entering the container, Carlita is surprised to find it totally empty, with no indication that anything had been stored inside. Carlita checks two more containers and finds them empty as well. Wondering why the ship would be transporting empty containers without ever unloading them, Carlita sees crew members emerge from the ship. Thinking she could be in trouble, Carlita tries to act inconspicuously but Tadeas just asks her to come with them. She obeys and follows as they gather up the rest of the crew before going to the lifeboat where Captain Lukas is waiting. Carlita notices that it's an old-fashioned rowboat with a winch system to lower it rather than the modern inflatable life rafts. The crew boards the boat, Carlita with them, and they quietly row away from the ''Tundra''. Carlita looks over the crew and realizes that Sean isn't with them. Tadeas blows the boatswain's call, producing a high whistling that also sounds distant somehow. Before Carlita realizes it, the lifeboat is wrapped in fog despite not being in the right ocean climate for it. Eventually the fog clears and Tadeas blows the call one last time. The crew rows the lifeboat back to the ''Tundra'' and get back aboard, stowing the lifeboat as it was before. Carlita doesn't see Sean again. After this event, the crew begins to socialize and engage in conversation once more, though they all seem unhappy whenever Carlita brings up Sean. Eventually the third mate, Kim Duong, tells her to stop talking about Sean because "it hadn't been an easy choice". Soon they reach Southampton and Carlita leaves the ship. A couple of days later she gets her paycheck, amounting to £25,000, which she thinks is fantastic but decides not to return to the ''Tundra''.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Before the recording, Tim asks Jonathan to rerecord some cases due to errors, but he refuses and mentions that audio recordings are only done for cases "too stubborn to work on anything else". Jonathan finds that the ''Tundra'' is still active under Solus Shipping PLC, owned by Nathaniel Lukas. Due to the Lukas' family's connection to the case, Jonathan can't do any investigation into the case where they are concerned despite the similarities to case 0161301 (13: Alone). Jonathan still mentions that the crew of the ''Tundra'' has been unchanging for the last ten years and there are no records of it loading or unloading cargo anywhere in the UK. As for Sean Kelly, he had disappeared in October 2010 from Felixstowe and was found dead and washed up on the coast of Morocco in April 2011, though evidence showed he had been in the water for only five days.
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Jane describes an itching within her, as deep as her bones like something inside her that wants to be free. She describes something that "wants [her] for its own" that hates the Institute, which is what prompted her to go to them to deliver a statement and see if she can get help, though she no longer believes she can be helped. Jane mentions that she can't sleep anymore because her dreams are filled with insects, and feels that there will be violence at the Institute, specifically mentioning the person who is facilitating her statement at the Institute, Gertrude Robinson. Jane then moves to the topic of the wasps' nest in her attic, which she is often entranced by and and feels it sing to her that it loves her. Jane mentions her landlord, who she used to fear before learning of the wasps' nest, which he doesn't know about. Jane recalls her life before she started itching and hearing the singing from the nest, when she worked at a store selling crystals. She mentions a coworker named Oliver, who always looked at her with sadness. Jane left this job after people complained about her telling them about ants living underneath the store. Jane recalls that around this time is when she professed to be a witch, as she wanted to have something bigger than herself but couldn't stand any mainstream religions. Jane returns to the topic of the nest but becomes confused on the details. She talks about being drawn to the attic before knowing about the nest and spending a day cutting through the padlock with a hacksaw. Jane describes the nest as the "face" of an infinite hive of flesh. She also notes the prescence of spiders in the attic, whose webs also have a song distinct from that of the hive. Jane wonders when she started to hear the song, mentioning an old habit of picking at her skin, a time as a child when she heard that blackheads would cause decay if she didn't clean them out, and a time when she saw worms emerge from the ground after rain. Jane thinks she may have had friends once, and remembers them leaving her after calling her "toxic" and afterwards feeling lonely and hungry for love. Jane realizes that the Institute cannot help because there is no way to put into words what she feels, and the hive hates the Institute because through learning about it they make it less threatening. Jane ends with a chilling remark:
->I do not know why the hive chose me, but it did. And I think that it always had. The song is loud and beautiful and I am so very afraid. There is a wasps' nest in my attic. Perhaps it can soothe my itching soul.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan is disturbed by the story, and at the same time is disappointed that it didn't answer many questions about Jane Prentiss. He mentions Jane's former job, at a store called Good Energies, from which she was fired after having a breakdown over an ant infestation. Sometime after Jane gave her story, police were called to respond to screaming in her flat, and found her passed out in the attic with her arm in "pulped organic matter" which could be the wasps' nest, though no one in the area reported seeing wasps. Later that night, the flat burned to the ground with the landlord, Arthur Nolan, inside. The cause of the fire was recorded to be Nolan falling asleep with a lit cigarette, as his remains were found seated in a chair with no evidence of distress on his part. Jane was taken the the ER at Whittington Hospital, already with signs of being infested. Six staff were killed when worms were suddenly expelled from her body and burrowed through their soft tissue into their brains. Jane ended up calmly walking out of the hospital, scaring a nurse who tried running but fell and broke his neck on stairs. The Institute was consulted on the incident but was dropped after her condition was determied to be solely medical in nature. Jonathan states that it's possible that there's nothing supernatural about Jane Prentiss and it's just an unknown type of parasite, but he knows within himself that's not the case.
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Jane describes an itching within her, as deep as her bones like something inside her that wants to be free. She describes something that "wants [her] for its own" that hates the Institute, which is what prompted her to go to them to deliver a statement and see if she can get help, though she no longer believes she can be helped. Jane mentions that she can't sleep anymore because her dreams are filled with insects, and feels that there will be violence at the Institute, specifically mentioning the person who is facilitating her statement at the Institute, Gertrude Robinson. Jane then moves to the topic of the wasps' nest in her attic, which she is often entranced by and and feels it sing to her that it loves her. Jane mentions her landlord, who she used to fear before learning of the wasps' nest, which he doesn't know about. Jane recalls her life before she started itching and hearing the singing from the nest, when she worked at a store selling crystals. She mentions a coworker named Oliver, who always looked at her with sadness. Jane left this job after people complained about her telling them about ants living underneath the store. Jane recalls that around this time is when she professed to be a witch, as she wanted to have something bigger than herself but couldn't stand any mainstream religions. Jane returns to the topic of the nest but becomes confused on the details. She talks about being drawn to the attic before knowing about the nest and spending a day cutting through the padlock with a hacksaw. Jane describes the nest as the "face" of an infinite hive of flesh. She also notes the prescence of spiders in the attic, whose webs also have a song distinct from that of the hive. Jane wonders when she started to hear the song, mentioning an old habit of picking at her skin, a time as a child when she heard that blackheads would cause decay if she didn't clean them out, and a time when she saw worms emerge from the ground after rain. Jane thinks she may have had friends once, and remembers them leaving her after calling her "toxic" and afterwards feeling lonely and hungry for love. Jane realizes that the Institute cannot help because there is no way to put into words what she feels, and the hive hates the Institute because through learning about it they make it less threatening. Jane ends with a chilling remark:
->I do not know why the hive chose me, but it did. And I think that it always had. The song is loud and beautiful and I am so very afraid. There is a wasps' nest in my attic. Perhaps it can soothe my itching soul.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan is disturbed by the story, and at the same time is disappointed that it didn't answer many questions about Jane Prentiss. He mentions Jane's former job, at a store called Good Energies, from which she was fired after having a breakdown over an ant infestation. Sometime after Jane gave her story, police were called to respond to screaming in her flat, and found her passed out in the attic with her arm in "pulped organic matter" which could be the wasps' nest, though no one in the area reported seeing wasps. Later that night, the flat burned to the ground with the landlord, Arthur Nolan, inside. The cause of the fire was recorded to be Nolan falling asleep with a lit cigarette, as his remains were found seated in a chair with no evidence of distress on his part. Jane was taken the the ER at Whittington Hospital, already with signs of being infested. Six staff were killed when worms were suddenly expelled from her body and burrowed through their soft tissue into their brains. Jane ended up calmly walking out of the hospital, scaring a nurse who tried running but fell and broke his neck on stairs. The Institute was consulted on the incident but was dropped after her condition was determied to be solely medical in nature. Jonathan states that it's possible that there's nothing supernatural about Jane Prentiss and it's just an unknown type of parasite, but he knows within himself that's not the case.
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Lawrence decides to go hunting for the first time after his fiftieth birthday, since he thinks it's an adventurous and manly thing to do. He arranges a hunting trip in the Appalachians with Arden Neeli, an online acquaintance who lives in Richmond, Virginia. After not getting any kills their first day, they set up camp for the night and Lawrence hears whistling in the distance to the tune of 'A-Hunting We Shall Go'. Soon thereafter a man who seems to be the source of the whistling comes through their camp, declining the help they offer him as he looks ill-prepared for hiking in the woods. As he leaves, Lawrence thinks he notices the man sniff him and Arden and saying something like "Tomorrow will be a good day for a run". In the night, Lawrence thinks he hears laughter outside. At the end of the next day, Lawrence sees an elk and feels compelled to go after it. He hears a gunshot from elsewhere and discovers that Arden has vanished. After searching around, Lawrence finds Arden dead with bloody hole in his throat. Lawrence hears the whistiling again just before the same man arrives on the scene, his right arm covered in what Lawrence knows is Arden's blood. The man chases Lawrence through the woods until after dark when he hears the whistling and finds himself back near Arden's corpse. The man returns and Lawrence notices that everything about him looks sharper from his teeth to his fingers. Lawrence recalls ''Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi'', in which the titular Duchess' brother believes himself to be a werewolf. Lawrence predicts that the thing will attack more casually in its triumph, which it does, allowing Lawrence to dodge and gain the upper hand by getting the thing at gunpoint. Lawrence completely unloads both his and Arden's guns into the thing, but it isn't killed despite having several bullets in both its head and heart. The thing starts to dig into its wounds to remove the bullets and Lawrence takes the chance to escape, soon encountering some park rangers which take him to safety. Lawrence never sees the thing again, and Arden's corpse is recovered from the woods some time later. Lawrence decides to not go hunting again now that he knows how it feels to be the hunted.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan finds records confirming the recovery of Arden's corpse, with his death ruled an animal attack. Since the story took place in the United States, Jonathan decides not to conduct further investigation. Jonathan mentions that he too knows what it's like to be hunted thanks to Jane Prentiss, who has now been haunting the Institute for two months. Martin is still living in the Institute and Jonathan finds himself leaving less. Jonathan wonders what Prentiss is waiting for.
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Lawrence decides to go hunting for the first time after his fiftieth birthday, since he thinks it's an adventurous and manly thing to do. He arranges a hunting trip in the Appalachians with Arden Neeli, an online acquaintance who lives in Richmond, Virginia. After not getting any kills their first day, they set up camp for the night and Lawrence hears whistling in the distance to the tune of 'A-Hunting We Shall Go'. Soon thereafter a man who seems to be the source of the whistling comes through their camp, declining the help they offer him as he looks ill-prepared for hiking in the woods. As he leaves, Lawrence thinks he notices the man sniff him and Arden and saying something like "Tomorrow will be a good day for a run". In the night, Lawrence thinks he hears laughter outside. At the end of the next day, Lawrence sees an elk and feels compelled to go after it. He hears a gunshot from elsewhere and discovers that Arden has vanished. After searching around, Lawrence finds Arden dead with bloody hole in his throat. Lawrence hears the whistiling again just before the same man arrives on the scene, his right arm covered in what Lawrence knows is Arden's blood. The man chases Lawrence through the woods until after dark when he hears the whistling and finds himself back near Arden's corpse. The man returns and Lawrence notices that everything about him looks sharper from his teeth to his fingers. Lawrence recalls ''Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi'', in which the titular Duchess' brother believes himself to be a werewolf. Lawrence predicts that the thing will attack more casually in its triumph, which it does, allowing Lawrence to dodge and gain the upper hand by getting the thing at gunpoint. Lawrence completely unloads both his and Arden's guns into the thing, but it isn't killed despite having several bullets in both its head and heart. The thing starts to dig into its wounds to remove the bullets and Lawrence takes the chance to escape, soon encountering some park rangers which take him to safety. Lawrence never sees the thing again, and Arden's corpse is recovered from the woods some time later. Lawrence decides to not go hunting again now that he knows how it feels to be the hunted.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan finds records confirming the recovery of Arden's corpse, with his death ruled an animal attack. Since the story took place in the United States, Jonathan decides not to conduct further investigation. Jonathan mentions that he too knows what it's like to be hunted thanks to Jane Prentiss, who has now been haunting the Institute for two months. Martin is still living in the Institute and Jonathan finds himself leaving less. Jonathan wonders what Prentiss is waiting for.
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Sasha finds confirmation of the missing person report, and that Mark had filed it on March 11th, 2015. No trace of her or her congregation were found at the chapel. Mark and Kathy are contacted but haven't heard from Natalie at all since Mark gave his report. The eye symbol and other descriptions of Natalie's congregation match up with elements from Case 0020312 (9: A Father's Love), leading Jonathan to sus[ect that the People's Church of the Divine Host may still be active. Tim finds that the sung words "Ny-Ålesund" are also the name of a Norweigian town which is the northenmost human settlement in the world, discounting research outposts, being at latitude North 78°55′30″, though it's unclear what it could have to do with Mark's story. Martin finds a police report from May 15th, 2015, about a month after Mark gave his report, where people living near the chapel reported screaming from inside it at the middle of the night, but nothing was found. Jonathan finds this interesting as May 15th, 2015, was the day Gertrude died.
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Sasha finds confirmation of the missing person report, and that Mark had filed it on March 11th, 2015. No trace of her or her congregation were found at the chapel. Mark and Kathy are contacted but haven't heard from Natalie at all since Mark gave his report. The eye symbol and other descriptions of Natalie's congregation match up with elements from Case 0020312 (9: A Father's Love), leading Jonathan to sus[ect suspect that the People's Church of the Divine Host may still be active. Tim finds that the sung words "Ny-Ålesund" are also the name of a Norweigian town which is the northenmost human settlement in the world, discounting research outposts, being at latitude North 78°55′30″, though it's unclear what it could have to do with Mark's story. Martin finds a police report from May 15th, 2015, about a month after Mark gave his report, where people living near the chapel reported screaming from inside it at the middle of the night, but nothing was found. Jonathan finds this interesting as May 15th, 2015, was the day Gertrude died.
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Albrecht writes to his friend, Jonah Magnus, to tell him this story. In the winter of 1815, Albrecht and his wife Clara decide to go look after their nephew Wilhelm after he fell ill. Wilhelm lives in the family estate in the Schwartzwald (Black Forest) as he had inherited from his late father, Albrecht's brother Hendrik, at the age of fourteen. Albrecht and Clara decide to spend the winter with Wilhelm after arriving. Albrecht likes to go out for long walks, and one day comes across an old graveyard with a mausoleum inscribed with the name "Johann von Württemberg". Albrecht doesn't recognize the name and thinks that it's an odd place for a graveyard since the nearest town is six miles away. Albrecht brings up his discovery over dinner, and Wilhelm says that he hadn't known of the graveyard or of Johann von Württemberg. The next day, Albrecht goes back to the graveyard to investigate and meets a man with a frock coat and wide brimmed hat, who asks Albrecht if he intends to explore the mausoleum. Albrecht confirms this, asking the man what he has to fear from the dead. The man answers that there's nothing at all to fear from the dead, before disappearing when Albrecht looks away. Albrecht enters the mausoleum and finds a hidden staircase leading to a chamber with old and damp books on marble shelves, each engraved with a small eye. Albrecht finds a coin and book on the floor. The coin has an image of a long-haired man with the letters "JW" and number 1279 on one side, and the words "Für die Stille" ("for the silence" in German) on the other. Albrecht opens the book but finds it to be written in what he believes to be Arabic. Back at the estate that evening, a servant named Hilda or Helga asks Albrecht if he went back to the graveyard. When he confirms, she tells him a story that she had heard from Tobias Kohler, an eighty-year-old man from Schramberg. As a child, Tobias would play a game with his friends called "Johann's Steps", in which you would sneak down the mausoleum stairs until you were seen, then run back, though Tobias wouldn't say who or what was supposed to see you. The game was ended when the mother of one of Tobias' friends, Hans Winkler, tried to stop Hans from going down and ran after him down the stairs. There was screaming, and the children ran back to town where the local priest rallied six other men to go to the mausoleum. They never spoke about what they found, and Hans went to live with another family, the Beckers. Tobias also mentioned that his uncle called Johann von Württemberg "Ulrich's bastard", which based on the coin's date of 1279 could refer to either Ulrich I or Ulrich II. A week before Albrecht and Clara mean to return home, Albrecht goes on a walk and is jumped by the man from the cemetery, now without his hat, which allows Albrecht to see his hairless head and eyeless sockets. The man reaches toward Albrecht before looking suddenly at something and disappearing. Albrecht and Clara leave Schwartzwald the next morning, and Albrecht realizes that he lost the coin.
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Albrecht writes to his friend, Jonah Magnus, to tell him this story. In the winter of 1815, Albrecht and his wife Clara decide to go look after their nephew Wilhelm after he fell ill. Wilhelm lives in the family estate in the Schwartzwald (Black Forest) as he had inherited it from his late father, Albrecht's brother Hendrik, at the age of fourteen. Albrecht and Clara decide to spend the winter with Wilhelm after arriving. Albrecht likes to go out for long walks, and one day comes across an old graveyard with a mausoleum inscribed with the name "Johann von Württemberg". Albrecht doesn't recognize the name and thinks that it's an odd place for a graveyard since the nearest town is six miles away. Albrecht brings up his discovery over dinner, and Wilhelm says that he hadn't known of the graveyard or of Johann von Württemberg. The next day, Albrecht goes back to the graveyard to investigate and meets a man with a frock coat and wide brimmed hat, who asks Albrecht if he intends to explore the mausoleum. Albrecht confirms this, asking the man what he has to fear from the dead. The man answers that there's nothing at all to fear from the dead, before disappearing when Albrecht looks away. Albrecht enters the mausoleum and finds a hidden staircase leading to a chamber with old and damp books on marble shelves, each engraved with a small eye. Albrecht finds a coin and book on the floor. The coin has an image of a long-haired man with the letters "JW" and number 1279 on one side, and the words "Für die Stille" ("for the silence" in German) on the other. Albrecht opens the book but finds it to be written in what he believes to be Arabic. Back at the estate that evening, a servant named Hilda or Helga asks Albrecht if he went back to the graveyard. When he confirms, she tells him a story that she had heard from Tobias Kohler, an eighty-year-old man from Schramberg. As a child, Tobias would play a game with his friends called "Johann's Steps", in which you would sneak down the mausoleum stairs until you were seen, then run back, though Tobias wouldn't say who or what was supposed to see you. The game was ended when the mother of one of Tobias' friends, Hans Winkler, tried to stop Hans from going down and ran after him down the stairs. There was screaming, and the children ran back to town where the local priest rallied six other men to go to the mausoleum. They never spoke about what they found, and Hans went to live with another family, the Beckers. Tobias also mentioned that his uncle called Johann von Württemberg "Ulrich's bastard", which based on the coin's date of 1279 could refer to either Ulrich I or Ulrich II. A week before Albrecht and Clara mean to return home, Albrecht goes on a walk and is jumped by the man from the cemetery, now without his hat, which allows Albrecht to see his hairless head and eyeless sockets. The man reaches toward Albrecht before looking suddenly at something and disappearing. Albrecht and Clara leave Schwartzwald the next morning, and Albrecht realizes that he lost the coin.
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During the story, Martin interrupts as he didn't realize Jonathan had come in early, and the quick talk reveals that it's been about a week since he started staying in the Institute, with no sign of Jane Prentiss. The only mention of Johann von Württemberg that Jonathan can find is in ''Cradle of Germany - Württemberg through the Centuries'' by Jan Moira, which details a rumor that Court Ulrich I of Württemberg had a second son out of wedlock in 1255. 1279 was the year that Ulrich II died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Eberhard I. It's also found in ''Grim Tales'' by H. T. Moncreef that Wilhelm was suspected for the murder of Rudolf Ziegler, but was acquitted when doctors decided that the man's wounds were too severe for a human to have done it, and so ruled it an animal attack rather than a murder. Jonathan also researches Wilhelm's genealogy, which shows that he eventually married and had children, and some of his descendants moved to England in 1908, and one daughter, Elsa, married Michael Keay in 1920 and they had a daughter, Mary Keay, in 1924.
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During the story, Martin interrupts as he didn't realize Jonathan had come in early, and the quick talk reveals that it's been about a week since he started staying in the Institute, with no sign of Jane Prentiss. The only mention of Johann von Württemberg that Jonathan can find is in ''Cradle of Germany - Württemberg through the Centuries'' by Jan Moira, which details a rumor that Court Count Ulrich I of Württemberg had a second son out of wedlock in 1255. 1279 was the year that Ulrich II died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Eberhard I. It's also found in ''Grim Tales'' by H. T. Moncreef that Wilhelm was suspected for the murder of Rudolf Ziegler, but was acquitted when doctors decided that the man's wounds were too severe for a human to have done it, and so ruled it an animal attack rather than a murder. Jonathan also researches Wilhelm's genealogy, which shows that he eventually married and had children, and some of his descendants moved to England in 1908, and one daughter, Elsa, married Michael Keay in 1920 and they had a daughter, Mary Keay, in 1924.
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The police report mentioned in the story is still possessed by the archives, proving that Leanne did indeed own the calliope and the steamer trunk before their theft. Evidence found in the police investigation into Josh's death indicates that a thick woolen rope was used to crush his throat, but there was no signs of a struggle or even a break-in, and no DNA found aside from Josh's own. No arrest was made. Tim mentions to Jonathan that some of the story's elements remind him of articles he's read about travelling circuses in the early 20th century, and after some research Jonathan finds a photograph in ''Freaks and Followers: Circuses in the 1940s'' by Gregory Petry of a group of carnies: a contortionist, a fire-eater, two strongmen, a ringmaster, and an organist at a calliope. The photograph's details reveal it to have been taken in Minsk, Russia in 1948. The details also identift the ringmaster as Gregor Osinov and the organist as Nikolai Denikin, with the other performers remaining unidentified. The circus' name was the Circus of the Other, which Jonathan finds familiar but can figure out where from. Leanne is unable to do another interview as she had moved to Southeast Asia in 2014. Jonathan reveals that the Institute has in its storage a calliope that quite possibly is the very same one from the story, indicated by its bright red color and the inscription on the keyboard cover: "Be still, for there is strange music". Jonathan only knows that the calliope came into the possession of the Institute sometime in 2007, and Elias had said that the record surrounding the event was probably in the archive.
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The police report mentioned in the story is still possessed by the archives, proving that Leanne did indeed own the calliope and the steamer trunk before their theft. Evidence found in the police investigation into Josh's death indicates that a thick woolen rope was used to crush his throat, but there was no signs of a struggle or even a break-in, and no DNA found aside from Josh's own. No arrest was made. Tim mentions to Jonathan that some of the story's elements remind him of articles he's read about travelling circuses in the early 20th century, and after some research Jonathan finds a photograph in ''Freaks and Followers: Circuses in the 1940s'' by Gregory Petry of a group of carnies: a contortionist, a fire-eater, two strongmen, a ringmaster, and an organist at a calliope. The photograph's details reveal it to have been taken in Minsk, Russia in 1948. The details also identift the ringmaster as Gregor Osinov and the organist as Nikolai Denikin, with the other performers remaining unidentified. The circus' name was the Circus of the Other, which Jonathan finds familiar but can can't figure out where from. Leanne is unable to do another interview as she had moved to Southeast Asia in 2014. Jonathan reveals that the Institute has in its storage a calliope that quite possibly is the very same one from the story, indicated by its bright red color and the inscription on the keyboard cover: "Be still, for there is strange music". Jonathan only knows that the calliope came into the possession of the Institute sometime in 2007, and Elias had said that the record surrounding the event was probably in the archive.
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Lesere works at St. Thomas Hospital near Waterloo. At 1:30AM on December 23rd, 2011, two burn victims are brought in for treatment by Lesere's superior, Dr. Kayleigh Grice. Lesere notices that the A&E room is totally silent as the two men are brought in, despite still being full of people. One victim is completely covered in second degree burns, although his clothing is strangely intact. The second is similarly burned up to a line on his neck, and he has tattoos of eyes on his joints and over his heart which seem unaffected by the burns. The second man also has a zippo lighter and a passport identifying him as Gerard Keay. The two men were found in a churchyard by a fire brigade who had been called to a fire at a nearby building site. Although there was no fire at the churchyard, the ground had burn marks and a nearby metal bar was bent as if it was slightly melted by heat. Later in the night, Lesere hears the unidentified man chanting in his sleep sounding like "Asah, veepalach, the lightless flame" and his skin is warm. Lesere goes to the waiting room to find it unusually empty. She then hears growling and sees a vending machine's drinks boil and explode. Running towards the exit, she finds the door handles deforming under extreme heat. She returns to the ward to find the unidentified man chanting loudly with his eyes open. Lesere reaches for his mouth to silence him but Keay stops her, telling her that it's not a good idea to touch the other man while not seeming to be in pain from his burns. Keay asks Lesere if a book bound in red leather and a brass pendant, possibly with an eye emblem, were recovered and brought to the hospital with them, to which she answers that there were no such items brought in. Keay goes to a storage room, somehow knowing the access code, and selects a scapel before coming back into the ward. Knowing that Keay intends to kill the other burn victim, Lesere decides to stand aside and let him do it, for which he nods to her and says "Yes, for you better Beholding than the Lightless Flame". A nearby container of saline begins to boil. Keay mutters inaudibly before stabbing the other burn victim in the throat. The burn victim's body turns to ash along with the scapel that killed him. Lesere begins cleaning up the ashes and sees Dr. Grice in the hallway, before running to the waiting room to see it filled again. Relieved, Lesere goes back to work. Keay remains in the hospital for four more days during which he remains unconscious, before being discharged to his mother's care. Lesere continues to feel as though she's being watched at work, especially near the storeroom.
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Lesere works at St. Thomas Hospital near Waterloo. At 1:30AM on December 23rd, 2011, two burn victims are brought in for treatment by Lesere's superior, Dr. Kayleigh Grice. Lesere notices that the A&E room is totally silent as the two men are brought in, despite still being full of people. One victim is completely covered in second degree burns, although his clothing is strangely intact. The second is similarly burned up to a line on his neck, and he has tattoos of eyes on his joints and over his heart which seem unaffected by the burns. The second man also has a zippo lighter and a passport identifying him as Gerard Keay. The two men were found in a churchyard by a fire brigade who had been called to a fire at a nearby building site. Although there was no fire at the churchyard, the ground had burn marks and a nearby metal bar was bent as if it was slightly melted by heat. Later in the night, Lesere hears the unidentified man chanting in his sleep sounding like "Asah, veepalach, the lightless flame" and his skin is warm. Lesere goes to the waiting room to find it unusually empty. She then hears growling and sees a vending machine's drinks boil and explode. Running towards the exit, she finds the door handles deforming under extreme heat. She returns to the ward to find the unidentified man chanting loudly with his eyes open. Lesere reaches for his mouth to silence him but Keay stops her, telling her that it's not a good idea to touch the other man while not seeming to be in pain from his burns. Keay asks Lesere if a book bound in red leather and a brass pendant, possibly with an eye emblem, were recovered and brought to the hospital with them, to which she answers that there were no such items brought in. Keay goes to a storage room, somehow knowing the access code, and selects a scapel scalpel before coming back into the ward. Knowing that Keay intends to kill the other burn victim, Lesere decides to stand aside and let him do it, for which he nods to her and says "Yes, for you better Beholding than the Lightless Flame". A nearby container of saline begins to boil. Keay mutters inaudibly before stabbing the other burn victim in the throat. The burn victim's body turns to ash along with the scapel that killed him. Lesere begins cleaning up the ashes and sees Dr. Grice in the hallway, before running to the waiting room to see it filled again. Relieved, Lesere goes back to work. Keay remains in the hospital for four more days during which he remains unconscious, before being discharged to his mother's care. Lesere continues to feel as though she's being watched at work, especially near the storeroom.
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Leanne's grandfather, a carnie named Nikolai, dies and she inherits his house. Leanne finds that none of the keys she received open the padlock sealing the attic door, which had always been so, and she decides to break the lock with bolt cutters to see what's inside the attic. She finds a bright red calliope organ and a steamer trunk containing twenty-three dolls, all but one with their jaws torn away. The one undamaged doll is a clown doll with a pointed hat and painted eyes and a red smile. The calliope has a plaque reading "The Calliophone" and on the keyboard cover are carved the words "Be still, for there is strange music". Leanne plays a circus song that she had learned from Nikolai, increasing speed until misplaying a note. Leanne sees that the steamer trunk is open even though she had closed it, with the clown doll on top of the pile of dolls. Later, Leanne discovers that a calliope has to have its blower set up to be playable, which she hadn't done. Leanne brings her partner, Josh, to the attic where he is creeped out by the dolls and insists that they leave after Leanne begins to play the calliope again. A few weeks later Leanne and Josh break up, shortly before which he tells her that he can still hear the calliope music which seems to gradually be getting closer. One day when Leanne is clearing out items from the attic, she sees the streamer trunk opened and the clown doll out and reaching for another doll which bears an uncanny resemblance to Josh. Leanne puts the dolls in the trunk and uses a padlock to keep it shut. The next week, Leanne discovers that the house has been broken into, and the calliope and trunk had been taken. In the police report provided by Leanne, a neighbor testifies that she saw two mean taking the calliope out piece by piece, but she had assumed that they were professionals hired by Leanne. The calliope is never found, and four days later Josh is discovered dead in his bedroom, his throat crushed and his jaw torn away, which is never recovered. Leanne promises that she wasn't involved in Josh's death.
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Leanne's grandfather, a carnie named Nikolai, dies and she inherits his house. Leanne finds that none of the keys she received open the padlock sealing the attic door, which had always been so, and she decides to break the lock with bolt cutters to see what's inside the attic. She finds a bright red calliope organ and a steamer trunk containing twenty-three dolls, all but one with their jaws torn away. The one undamaged doll is a clown doll with a pointed hat and painted eyes and a red smile. The calliope has a plaque reading "The Calliophone" and on the keyboard cover are carved the words "Be still, for there is strange music". Leanne plays a circus song that she had learned from Nikolai, increasing speed until misplaying a note. Leanne sees that the steamer trunk is open even though she had closed it, with the clown doll on top of the pile of dolls. Later, Leanne discovers that a calliope has to have its blower set up to be playable, which she hadn't done. Leanne brings her partner, Josh, to the attic where he is creeped out by the dolls and insists that they leave after Leanne begins to play the calliope again. A few weeks later Leanne and Josh break up, shortly before which he tells her that he can still hear the calliope music which seems to gradually be getting closer. One day when Leanne is clearing out items from the attic, she sees the streamer trunk opened and the clown doll out and reaching for another doll which bears an uncanny resemblance to Josh. Leanne puts the dolls in the trunk and uses a padlock to keep it shut. The next week, Leanne discovers that the house has been broken into, and the calliope and trunk had been taken. In the police report provided by Leanne, a neighbor testifies that she saw two mean men taking the calliope out piece by piece, but she had assumed that they were professionals hired by Leanne. The calliope is never found, and four days later Josh is discovered dead in his bedroom, his throat crushed and his jaw torn away, which is never recovered. Leanne promises that she wasn't involved in Josh's death.
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Leanne's grandfather, a carnie named Nikolai, dies and she inherits his house. Leanne finds that none of the keys she received open the padlock sealing the attic door, which had always been so, and she decides to break the lock with bolt cutters to see what's inside the attic. She finds a bright red calliope organ and a steamer trunk containing twenty-three dolls, all but one with their jaws torn away. The one undamaged doll is a clown doll with a pointed hat and painted eyes and a red smile. The calliope has a plague reading "The Calliophone" and on the keyboard cover are carved the words "Be still, for there is strange music". Leanne plays a circus song that she had learned from Nikolai, increasing speed until misplaying a note. Leanne sees that the steamer trunk is open even though she had closed it, with the clown doll on top of the pile of dolls. Later, Leanne discovers that a calliope has to have its blower set up to be playable, which she hadn't done. Leanne brings her partner, Josh, to the attic where he is creeped out by the dolls and insists that they leave after Leanne begins to play the calliope again. A few weeks later Leanne and Josh break up, shortly before which he tells her that he can still hear the calliope music which seems to gradually be getting closer. One day when Leanne is clearing out items from the attic, she sees the streamer trunk opened and the clown doll out and reaching for another doll which bears an uncanny resemblance to Josh. Leanne puts the dolls in the trunk and uses a padlock to keep it shut. The next week, Leanne discovers that the house has been broken into, and the calliope and trunk had been taken. In the police report provided by Leanne, a neighbor testifies that she saw two mean taking the calliope out piece by piece, but she had assumed that they were professionals hired by Leanne. The calliope is never found, and four days later Josh is discovered dead in his bedroom, his throat crushed and his jaw torn away, which is never recovered. Leanne promises that she wasn't involved in Josh's death.
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Leanne's grandfather, a carnie named Nikolai, dies and she inherits his house. Leanne finds that none of the keys she received open the padlock sealing the attic door, which had always been so, and she decides to break the lock with bolt cutters to see what's inside the attic. She finds a bright red calliope organ and a steamer trunk containing twenty-three dolls, all but one with their jaws torn away. The one undamaged doll is a clown doll with a pointed hat and painted eyes and a red smile. The calliope has a plague plaque reading "The Calliophone" and on the keyboard cover are carved the words "Be still, for there is strange music". Leanne plays a circus song that she had learned from Nikolai, increasing speed until misplaying a note. Leanne sees that the steamer trunk is open even though she had closed it, with the clown doll on top of the pile of dolls. Later, Leanne discovers that a calliope has to have its blower set up to be playable, which she hadn't done. Leanne brings her partner, Josh, to the attic where he is creeped out by the dolls and insists that they leave after Leanne begins to play the calliope again. A few weeks later Leanne and Josh break up, shortly before which he tells her that he can still hear the calliope music which seems to gradually be getting closer. One day when Leanne is clearing out items from the attic, she sees the streamer trunk opened and the clown doll out and reaching for another doll which bears an uncanny resemblance to Josh. Leanne puts the dolls in the trunk and uses a padlock to keep it shut. The next week, Leanne discovers that the house has been broken into, and the calliope and trunk had been taken. In the police report provided by Leanne, a neighbor testifies that she saw two mean taking the calliope out piece by piece, but she had assumed that they were professionals hired by Leanne. The calliope is never found, and four days later Josh is discovered dead in his bedroom, his throat crushed and his jaw torn away, which is never recovered. Leanne promises that she wasn't involved in Josh's death.
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Carlos has arachnophobia, a deep fear of spiders. He decides to move to a city flat after realzing that there are probably hundreds or thousands of spiders in his garden which will likely try to get into his house in the colder weather. After moving, Carlos adopts an old cat named Major Tom to help get rid of spiders. Carlos' apartment building becomes infested with small, silvery worms which results in an increased spider population in the building. One night in early 2015, Carlos finds a spider in his kitchen that scares him more than other spiders have. He leaves Major Tom alone with the spider for a few hours, but Major Tom doesn't kill the spider. After an hour of panicking, Carlos kills the spider by throwing a mug of coffee at it, then waits until the morning to clean up and finds the spider's remains. Major Tom starts spending most of his time away from the flat. A week later, Carlos sees a spider on his TV's screen, and believes that it's somehow the same spider he encountered in the kitchen. After another hour of panicking, Carlos stomps the spider, killing it and destroying the TV in the process. Carlos burns the shoe he stomped the spider with. Two weeks later, Carlos sees the spider back again, now on the wall over his bed. Carlos remembers the traumatizing event that caused him to develop arachnophobia, a day in 1991 when he, at six years old, accidentally crushed a spider and broke open it's egg sac, causing thousands of underdeveloped spiders to crawl all over him. Carlos believes that the spider haunting him is the same spider from that incident. Carlos kills the spider again with his bare hand before spending hours washing it. Carlos decides to move again, gives Major Tom to a family on the ground floor of the building who he had already starting living with, and decides to visit a doctor as he suspects he may have psychosis.
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Carlos has arachnophobia, a deep fear of spiders. He decides to move to a city flat after realzing that there are probably hundreds or thousands of spiders in his garden which will likely try to get into his house in the colder weather. After moving, Carlos adopts an old cat named Major Tom to help get rid of spiders. Carlos' apartment building becomes infested with small, silvery worms which results in an increased spider population in the building. One night in early 2015, Carlos finds a spider in his kitchen that scares him more than other spiders have. He leaves Major Tom alone with the spider for a few hours, but Major Tom doesn't kill the spider. After an hour of panicking, Carlos kills the spider by throwing a mug of coffee at it, then waits until the morning to clean up and finds the spider's remains. Major Tom starts spending most of his time away from the flat. A week later, Carlos sees a spider on his TV's screen, and believes that it's somehow the same spider he encountered in the kitchen. After another hour of panicking, Carlos stomps the spider, killing it and destroying the TV in the process. Carlos burns the shoe he stomped the spider with. Two weeks later, Carlos sees the spider back again, now on the wall over his bed. Carlos remembers the traumatizing event that caused him to develop arachnophobia, a day in 1991 when he, at six years old, accidentally crushed a spider and broke open it's its egg sac, causing thousands of underdeveloped spiders to crawl all over him. Carlos believes that the spider haunting him is the same spider from that incident. Carlos kills the spider again with his bare hand before spending hours washing it. Carlos decides to move again, gives Major Tom to a family on the ground floor of the building who he had already starting living with, and decides to visit a doctor as he suspects he may have psychosis.
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Jonathan announces that this second part of Edwin's story had been misplaced in the next box over from it's correct location, meaning that someone had been reading it and put it away hurriedly. Martin is still out and can't be questioned, but Tim and Sasha deny having even seen the record before. Jonathan doesn't think it's likely that Gertrude would have read it. As for the story itself, Jonathan doesn't know what to make of it considering Edwin's gradual loss of his sense of reality. Sasha finds records proving the existence of Bethany O'Connor and her status as an archaeology student at St. Hugh's College, with her personal history and death matching up with Edwin's story, with the exception that during her time as a student she lived in student housing and the person she attacked was housing staff, not a roommate. The house of 89 Bullingdon Road was actually uninhabited at the time, so if Bethany spent time there she didn't do so legally. Edwin's former colleagues are interviewed and corroborate Edwin's mental decline following Bethany's death, and were trying to arrange help for him before his arrest. Regarding the arrest, Edwin was found at 89 Bullingdon Road, wearing a butcher's apron and with two dead students, Christopher Bilham and James Mann, bled to death from multiple cuts as well as their faces being removed. Edwin had partially eaten Mann's face. Edwin remains incarcerated at Wakefield Prison serving two life sentences, and as such futher interviews are impossible. Jonathan mentions some peculiarities from the end of Edwin's story, namely that nothing in his hallucination could correspond to the actions of capturing and killing the students, and that the other man at the church in Edwin's hallucination was unusual in that he seemed to act for himself. Combined with the fact that no tools that could have been used to kill or mutilate the students were at the crime scene, Jonathan suspects that there could have been a second murderer with Edwin who wasn't caught, although it's unlikely for the case to reopen as Edwin fully accepted all charges. Tim finds one other interesting detail, which is that although Edwin wasn't really at the Oratory, there was a delivery to it of one pale yellow stole, which disappeared less than a day later, and one of the deacons remembered that it was delivered by Breekon and Hope Deliveries.
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Jonathan announces that this second part of Edwin's story had been misplaced in the next box over from it's its correct location, meaning that someone had been reading it and put it away hurriedly. Martin is still out and can't be questioned, but Tim and Sasha deny having even seen the record before. Jonathan doesn't think it's likely that Gertrude would have read it. As for the story itself, Jonathan doesn't know what to make of it considering Edwin's gradual loss of his sense of reality. Sasha finds records proving the existence of Bethany O'Connor and her status as an archaeology student at St. Hugh's College, with her personal history and death matching up with Edwin's story, with the exception that during her time as a student she lived in student housing and the person she attacked was housing staff, not a roommate. The house of 89 Bullingdon Road was actually uninhabited at the time, so if Bethany spent time there she didn't do so legally. Edwin's former colleagues are interviewed and corroborate Edwin's mental decline following Bethany's death, and were trying to arrange help for him before his arrest. Regarding the arrest, Edwin was found at 89 Bullingdon Road, wearing a butcher's apron and with two dead students, Christopher Bilham and James Mann, bled to death from multiple cuts as well as their faces being removed. Edwin had partially eaten Mann's face. Edwin remains incarcerated at Wakefield Prison serving two life sentences, and as such futher interviews are impossible. Jonathan mentions some peculiarities from the end of Edwin's story, namely that nothing in his hallucination could correspond to the actions of capturing and killing the students, and that the other man at the church in Edwin's hallucination was unusual in that he seemed to act for himself. Combined with the fact that no tools that could have been used to kill or mutilate the students were at the crime scene, Jonathan suspects that there could have been a second murderer with Edwin who wasn't caught, although it's unlikely for the case to reopen as Edwin fully accepted all charges. Tim finds one other interesting detail, which is that although Edwin wasn't really at the Oratory, there was a delivery to it of one pale yellow stole, which disappeared less than a day later, and one of the deacons remembered that it was delivered by Breekon and Hope Deliveries.
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Leanne's grandfather, a carnie named Nikolai, dies and she inherits his house. Leanne finds that none of the keys she received open the padlock sealing the attic door, which had always been so, and she decides to break the lock with bolt cutters to see what's inside the attic. She finds a bright red calliope organ and a steamer trunk containing twenty-three dolls, all but one with their jaws torn away. The one undamaged doll is a clown doll with a pointed hat and painted eyes and a red smile. The calliope has a plague reading "The Calliophone" and on the keyboard cover are carved the words "Be still, for there is strange music". Leanne plays a circus song that she had learned from Nikolai, increasing speed until misplaying a note. Leanne sees that the steamer trunk is open even though she had closed it, with the clown doll on top of the pile of dolls. Later, Leanne discovers that a calliope has to have it's blower set up to be playable, which she hadn't done. Leanne brings her partner, Josh, to the attic where he is creeped out by the dolls and insists that they leave after Leanne begins to play the calliope again. A few weeks later Leanne and Josh break up, shortly before which he tells her that he can still hear the calliope music which seems to gradually be getting closer. One day when Leanne is clearing out items from the attic, she sees the streamer trunk opened and the clown doll out and reaching for another doll which bears an uncanny resemblance to Josh. Leanne puts the dolls in the trunk and uses a padlock to keep it shut. The next week, Leanne discovers that the house has been broken into, and the calliope and trunk had been taken. In the police report provided by Leanne, a neighbor testifies that she saw two mean taking the calliope out piece by piece, but she had assumed that they were professionals hired by Leanne. The calliope is never found, and four days later Josh is discovered dead in his bedroom, his throat crushed and his jaw torn away, which is never recovered. Leanne promises that she wasn't involved in Josh's death.
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Leanne's grandfather, a carnie named Nikolai, dies and she inherits his house. Leanne finds that none of the keys she received open the padlock sealing the attic door, which had always been so, and she decides to break the lock with bolt cutters to see what's inside the attic. She finds a bright red calliope organ and a steamer trunk containing twenty-three dolls, all but one with their jaws torn away. The one undamaged doll is a clown doll with a pointed hat and painted eyes and a red smile. The calliope has a plague reading "The Calliophone" and on the keyboard cover are carved the words "Be still, for there is strange music". Leanne plays a circus song that she had learned from Nikolai, increasing speed until misplaying a note. Leanne sees that the steamer trunk is open even though she had closed it, with the clown doll on top of the pile of dolls. Later, Leanne discovers that a calliope has to have it's its blower set up to be playable, which she hadn't done. Leanne brings her partner, Josh, to the attic where he is creeped out by the dolls and insists that they leave after Leanne begins to play the calliope again. A few weeks later Leanne and Josh break up, shortly before which he tells her that he can still hear the calliope music which seems to gradually be getting closer. One day when Leanne is clearing out items from the attic, she sees the streamer trunk opened and the clown doll out and reaching for another doll which bears an uncanny resemblance to Josh. Leanne puts the dolls in the trunk and uses a padlock to keep it shut. The next week, Leanne discovers that the house has been broken into, and the calliope and trunk had been taken. In the police report provided by Leanne, a neighbor testifies that she saw two mean taking the calliope out piece by piece, but she had assumed that they were professionals hired by Leanne. The calliope is never found, and four days later Josh is discovered dead in his bedroom, his throat crushed and his jaw torn away, which is never recovered. Leanne promises that she wasn't involved in Josh's death.
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David used to work at an Aver Meats processing plant. He started as a driver but eventually was moved to work on the killing floor. As he kills living creatures over and over, he begins to see less of a difference between them and humans. David soon asks to be removed from the killing floor due to the trauma and since policy states that all such requests must be fulfilled, he is reassigned. On David's last day before transferring, he is accosted by Tom Haan, a coworker who David had never spoken to before, who cryptically says "You cannot stop slaughter by closing the door" before going back to his job. David later zones out while using the bolt gun on cows, and when he snaps out of it all of his coworkers and the animals are gone, and there's no blood or other evidence of slaughter anywhere. David tries to leave and finds that the layout of the plant has changed. Eventually he finds an exit door but on the other side he finds himself on a conveyor belt headed for a meat grinder, and escapes back through the door. David begins to smell blood and follows the smell to a catwalk over a giant meat grinder which multiple conveyor belts pour meat into. David sees what he thinks could be human meat among the animal meat. David hears the sound of the bolt gun and decides against following it, but somehow finds the source anyway: Tom Haan, firing the gun against different parts of himself. As David draws near, Tom puts the gun into his hand and holds it to his own forehead, after which David pulls the trigger without coercion. Hoping that Tom had been killed by this final blow, David is finally able to leave the plant. He never hears anything about Tom again.
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Sasha finds that David was indeed employed at Aver Meats from April 2010 until July 12th, 2013, the day his story took place. On that day, he and Tom left together in the middle of the shift and Tom was never seen again. David agrees to an interview but doesn't have any more relavent information. Tim and Martin try and fail to track Tom down. Jonathan notes that although Aver Meats is trying to expand the plant, construction workers keep leaving the project as they were bothered too much by the smell of blood and thought that the plant was too big already..
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David used to work at an Aver Meats processing plant. He started as a driver but eventually was moved to work on the killing floor. As he kills living creatures over and over, he begins to see less of a difference between them and humans. David soon asks to be removed from the killing floor due to the trauma and since policy states that all such requests must be fulfilled, he is reassigned. On David's last day before transferring, he is accosted by Tom Haan, a coworker who David had never spoken to before, who cryptically says "You cannot stop slaughter by closing the door" before going back to his job. David later zones out while using the bolt gun on cows, and when he snaps out of it all of his coworkers and the animals are gone, and there's no blood or other evidence of slaughter anywhere. David tries to leave and finds that the layout of the plant has changed. Eventually he finds an exit door but on the other side he finds himself on a conveyor belt headed for a meat grinder, and escapes back through the door. David begins to smell blood and follows the smell to a catwalk over a giant meat grinder which multiple conveyor belts pour meat into. David sees what he thinks could be human meat among the animal meat. David hears the sound of the bolt gun and decides against following it, but somehow finds the source anyway: Tom Haan, firing the gun against different parts of himself. As David draws near, Tom puts the gun into his hand and holds it to his own forehead, after which David pulls the trigger without coercion. Hoping that Tom had been killed by this final blow, David is finally able to leave the plant. He never hears anything about Tom again.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha finds that David was indeed employed at Aver Meats from April 2010 until July 12th, 2013, the day his story took place. On that day, he and Tom left together in the middle of the shift and Tom was never seen again. David agrees to an interview but doesn't have any more relavent information. Tim and Martin try and fail to track Tom down. Jonathan notes that although Aver Meats is trying to expand the plant, construction workers keep leaving the project as they were bothered too much by the smell of blood and thought that the plant was too big already..
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Being illiterate, Nathaniel has his statement transcribed by assisstant researcher Fiona Law. He begins by telling a folk tale of a bold soldier who fought in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. The soldier participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill after a night of drinking and Faro, a gambling card game. Due to the resulting weariness, he is quickly shot and gets himself into the cellar of a house for shelter. In the cellar, he sees a figure in monastic robes that he quickly realizes is Death. Fearing for his life, the soldier asks Death to play a game of Faro with his life at stake. Death agrees and they play the game for hours until eventually the soldier cheats by sneakily changing his bet, allowing him to win the game. Initially overjoyed, the soldier becomes horrified as Death laughs and grows blood and tissue over its ancient bones, becoming the monk it once was, while the soldier's flesh falls away, as he has now traded places with Death. In the present, Nathaniel explains to Fiona that he is the soldier from the story, cutting off his own finger to prove it. Nathaniel acted as Death for nearly two centuries before being freed by losing a game of roulette. Nathaniel reveals that there were other Deaths at the same time as him, and though they went to claim the dying they would also go after those who were perfectly healthy. Despite having returned to his body, Nathaniel cannot eat, drink, or sleep anymore, yet he craves something he cannot discern and believes that he's not the only one.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan finds that the information Nathaniel provided about his living arrangements were correct at the time but is currently unable to be found. Fiona died of complications from a liver transplant in 2003, and the only other person who worked at the Institute then who still remains is Elias, who worked as a filing clerk and confirmed that there was a commotion on the day in question and that he heard of someone hurting themselves during a statement. One artifact was included with the original statement, a Faro token made out of bone, which crumbled to dust when Jonathan touched it.
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Being illiterate, Nathaniel has his statement transcribed by assisstant researcher Fiona Law. He begins by telling a folk tale of a bold soldier who fought in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. The soldier participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill after a night of drinking and Faro, a gambling card game. Due to the resulting weariness, he is quickly shot and gets himself into the cellar of a house for shelter. In the cellar, he sees a figure in monastic robes that he quickly realizes is Death. Fearing for his life, the soldier asks Death to play a game of Faro with his life at stake. Death agrees and they play the game for hours until eventually the soldier cheats by sneakily changing his bet, allowing him to win the game. Initially overjoyed, the soldier becomes horrified as Death laughs and grows blood and tissue over its ancient bones, becoming the monk it once was, while the soldier's flesh falls away, as he has now traded places with Death. In the present, Nathaniel explains to Fiona that he is the soldier from the story, cutting off his own finger to prove it. Nathaniel acted as Death for nearly two centuries before being freed by losing a game of roulette. Nathaniel reveals that there were other Deaths at the same time as him, and though they went to claim the dying they would also go after those who were perfectly healthy. Despite having returned to his body, Nathaniel cannot eat, drink, or sleep anymore, yet he craves something he cannot discern and believes that he's not the only one.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan finds that the information Nathaniel provided about his living arrangements were correct at the time but is currently unable to be found. Fiona died of complications from a liver transplant in 2003, and the only other person who worked at the Institute then who still remains is Elias, who worked as a filing clerk and confirmed that there was a commotion on the day in question and that he heard of someone hurting themselves during a statement. One artifact was included with the original statement, a Faro token made out of bone, which crumbled to dust when Jonathan touched it.
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* ParanormalInvestigation: "Ghost Hunt UK", a YouTube channel co-hosted by Melanie and her friend Andy.
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* ParanormalInvestigation: "Ghost Hunt UK", a YouTube [=YouTube=] channel co-hosted by Melanie and her friend Andy.
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Sasha looks through police reports and finds records of Gerard Keay and another man arriving at the hospital and Keay later being released while the other victim disappeared, though there was no evidence of foul play and no missing person report. Jonathan analyzes the chanting the unnamed victim did in the story: 'Asag' is the name of a demon in Sumerian mythology who was associated with disease and corruption and was said to cause rivers to boil due to its ugliness. 'Veepalach' may be a mispronounciation of the Polish word wypalać, meaning 'to cauterize or brand'. Gerard Keay is found to have died of a brain tumor in late 2014. Lesere is offered an interview which she declines, but says that she still gets the feeling of being watched. Sasha accesses the hospital's CCTV which shows that at 03:11:22 all the people in the waiting room calmly stood up and walked out, before Lesere is seen entering and leaving three times. The people return to the waiting room at 03:27:12. But at 03:22:52, the feed cuts out to a single frame of a human eye.
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Sasha looks through police reports and finds records of Gerard Keay and another man arriving at the hospital and Keay later being released while the other victim disappeared, though there was no evidence of foul play and no missing person report. Jonathan analyzes the chanting the unnamed victim did in the story: 'Asag' is the name of a demon in Sumerian mythology who was associated with disease and corruption and was said to cause rivers to boil due to its ugliness. 'Veepalach' may be a mispronounciation of the Polish word wypalać, 'wypalać', meaning 'to cauterize or brand'. Gerard Keay is found to have died of a brain tumor in late 2014. Lesere is offered an interview which she declines, but says that she still gets the feeling of being watched. Sasha accesses the hospital's CCTV which shows that at 03:11:22 all the people in the waiting room calmly stood up and walked out, before Lesere is seen entering and leaving three times. The people return to the waiting room at 03:27:12. But at 03:22:52, the feed cuts out to a single frame of a human eye.
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Nathan leaves a student party after midnight due to falling ill. On the way home, a figure in an alley asks him for a cigarette but neither it nor Nathan move when Nathan holds it out. The figure is drawn back into the darkness by the waist when Nathan shines a light at it. The next day Nathan finds an unsmoked Marlboro Red cigarette where the figure was and hears of another student from the party, John Fellowes, who has gone missing. Nathan looks at a picture of John and sees a pack of Marlboro Red cigarettes in his pocket.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha looks through police reports and learns of six disappearances in the area the story took place in from 2005 to 2010: Jessica [=McEwan=] in November 2005, Sarah Baldwin in August 2006, Daniel Rawlings in December 2006, Ashley Dobson in May 2008, Megan Shaw in June 2008, and John Fellowes in March 2010. Of the six missing persons, Baldwin and Shaw were known to smoke. Dobson sent her sister a photo shortly before disappearing, captioned "check out this drunk creeper LOL" and depicting the alleyway described in the story. By brighting the image, Sasha discovers a shape in the darkness resembling a long, beckoning arm.
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Nathan leaves a student party after midnight due to falling ill. On the way home, a figure in an alley asks him for a cigarette but neither it nor Nathan move when Nathan holds it out. The figure is drawn back into the darkness by the waist when Nathan shines a light at it. The next day Nathan finds an unsmoked Marlboro Red cigarette where the figure was and hears of another student from the party, John Fellowes, who has gone missing. Nathan looks at a picture of John and sees a pack of Marlboro Red cigarettes in his pocket.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha looks through police reports and learns of six disappearances in the area the story took place in from 2005 to 2010: Jessica [=McEwan=] in November 2005, Sarah Baldwin in August 2006, Daniel Rawlings in December 2006, Ashley Dobson in May 2008, Megan Shaw in June 2008, and John Fellowes in March 2010. Of the six missing persons, Baldwin and Shaw were known to smoke. Dobson sent her sister a photo shortly before disappearing, captioned "check out this drunk creeper LOL" and depicting the alleyway described in the story. By brighting the image, Sasha discovers a shape in the darkness resembling a long, beckoning arm.
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Joshua meets a man named John while on vacation in Amsterdam and accepts £10,000 to watch a package for him, but cannot find John again to return the money when he changes his mind. A year later Joshua uses the money to rent a flat, and a week after moving in a large package is delivered to him from John, without a return address. The package contains a coffin which seems to be empty, but is held shut with a chain and padlock with a carved instruction to not open it. Over the months Joshua spends with the coffin in his home, he notices sounds from inside, namely scratching when he sets items on top of it and a melodic moaning when it rains. Joshua begins having nightmares he can't remember and sleepwalks, waking up standing over the coffin with the padlock's key in his hand. Joshua eliminates the risk of opening the coffin in his sleep by freezing the key in a bowl of water. After Joshua has had the coffin for eighteen months, John and the delivery men return to collect it, seemingly surprised to see Joshua in good health. Joshua doesn't accompany them to take the coffin out, and after they enter the living room Joshua hears screaming, though he doesn't know who or why. When the screaming stops, the delivery drivers load the coffin into their van marked 'Breekon and Hope Deliveries', and Joshua notices that John seems to have vanished.
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Tim learns that Breekon and Hope Deliveries did indeed exist but was liquidated in 2009, eliminating its records in the process. The records of the association that owned Joshua's flat show that he was the only resident during the time the story took place and no one ever moved in since, leading to the building eventually being demolished.
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Joshua meets a man named John while on vacation in Amsterdam and accepts £10,000 to watch a package for him, but cannot find John again to return the money when he changes his mind. A year later Joshua uses the money to rent a flat, and a week after moving in a large package is delivered to him from John, without a return address. The package contains a coffin which seems to be empty, but is held shut with a chain and padlock with a carved instruction to not open it. Over the months Joshua spends with the coffin in his home, he notices sounds from inside, namely scratching when he sets items on top of it and a melodic moaning when it rains. Joshua begins having nightmares he can't remember and sleepwalks, waking up standing over the coffin with the padlock's key in his hand. Joshua eliminates the risk of opening the coffin in his sleep by freezing the key in a bowl of water. After Joshua has had the coffin for eighteen months, John and the delivery men return to collect it, seemingly surprised to see Joshua in good health. Joshua doesn't accompany them to take the coffin out, and after they enter the living room Joshua hears screaming, though he doesn't know who or why. When the screaming stops, the delivery drivers load the coffin into their van marked 'Breekon and Hope Deliveries', and Joshua notices that John seems to have vanished.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Tim learns that Breekon and Hope Deliveries did indeed exist but was liquidated in 2009, eliminating its records in the process. The records of the association that owned Joshua's flat show that he was the only resident during the time the story took place and no one ever moved in since, leading to the building eventually being demolished.
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Amy becomes acquainted with Graham Folger in September 2005 during a criminology course they took together. His parents died in a car crash in 2001 and left him an inheritance, and he often writes vigorously in notebooks. In late 2005 they take the same bus home and get off at the same stop, though Graham is nervous. Amy falls or is pushed and has a concussion, so Graham takes her to his flat, which is across the street from hers, to take care of her. She notices his bookshelves filled with hundreds of identical notebooks and a strange table he owns with a square socket, and he claims to not have or know what goes in it. Unnerved by the table, she goes home and over the next few months feels compelled to spy on Graham from her flat, and notices his strange mannerisms such as frequently reorganizing and writing in the completed notebooks, and even eating one. At 10:30PM on April 7th, 2006, Amy sees a creature with multi-jointed limbs crawl into Graham's window, after which his flat goes dark. Amy calls the police and when they arrive they are met by a person wearing Graham's clothes, but isn't Graham. The police search the flat, finding Graham's passport and seemingly not seeing a difference between the picture and the man in Graham's place. After the police leave, Not-Graham looks straight at Amy and shuts the curtains. Over the next few days Not-Graham disposes of Graham's notebooks and redecorates the flat, while Amy discovers that all the photos of Graham she can find have changed to have Not-Graham in his place. Not-Graham catches Amy on the street to say "Isn't it funny, Amy, how you can live so near and never notice? I'll need to return the visit someday." Amy moves away soon thereafter,
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Tim looks through Amy's medical history and finds no mention of lasting effects from the concussion. All photos found of Graham match the description Amy gave of Not-Graham, except for a few Polaroids from the 1980s. Sasha tracks Amy down and offers to further interview her but is turned down, even after Sasha tells Amy that what seemed to be one of Graham's notebooks was recovered. The notebook is filled with the same phrase repeated: "Keep Watching".
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Dominic visits a charity shop to kill time before going to see an ex-girlfriend's play on November 10th, 2012, and becomes enthralled by a book written in Latin and bound in what looks like calf leather titled ''Ex Altiora'' whose bookplate reveals it to be "from the library of Jurgen Leitner". Dominic buys the book for £4 and later begins to smell ozone while watching the play. Dominic reasearches ''Ex Altiora'' and Leitner on the internet but can only find an eBay auction from 2007 for another book Leitner had owned, ''The Key of Solomon'', which was sold for £1,200 to a user named grbookworm1818. Graham tries to sell ''Ex Altiora'' so he can learn more from those who would want to buy it, and learns that Leitner was a big name in the 1990s who custom-bound books, had authors write books for him, and had contact with a shop called Pinhole Books before disappearing around 1995. After a play, Dominic wanders and finds Pinhole Books. He meets its manager, Mary Keay, who has a shaved head and tattoos of words all over her body. In the shop Dominic sees a painting of an eye which Mary says was created by her son Gerard, and it has the caption "Grant us the sight that we may not know, grant us the scent that we may not catch, grant us the sound that we may not call". Mary shows Dominic another Leitner book that she owns, and Dominic notices the illustrations in ''Ex Altiora'' have become clearer and he can now see a Lichtenberg figure in one. Dominic remembers a childhood friend who was struck by lighting after Dominic made him play out in the rain, and was permanently scarred with a Lichtenberg figure afterwards. Dominic becomes frightened and runs home. Soon thereafter Dominic is visited by Gerard Keay who offers to buy ''Ex Altiora'' from him for £5,000, which Dominic agreed to since he wanted to get rid of the book but felt only a legal transaction would do it properly. While Gerard goes to get the money, Dominic researches the Keays and discovers that Mary Keay died of a painkiller overdose in 2008 but the death was ruled a murder as her body was skinned and the skins hung to dry. Dominic notes from the pictures that Mary had a full head of hair and no tattoos. He also reads that Gerard was suspected but acquitted since a key piece of evidence was deemed inadmissible. Gerard returns and pays Dominic for ''Ex Altiora'', then immediately burns it in a trash bin after which Dominic stops smelling ozone. Gerard tells Dominic "My mother doesn't always know what's best for our family.", then takes the burning trash bin and leaves.
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Jonathan expresses displeasure that there are still books from Jurgen Leitner's collection in existence, having thought that they were all taken care of in an incident in 1994, and mentions that Leitner was known to have custom versions of books about demonology and the arcane. Martin and Sasha try to find records of ''Ex Altior''a to no avail. Gerard Keay is unable to be tracked down, having disappeared after his trial. Jonathan mentions that Pinhole Books closed down in 2008 due to Mary's murder, so Dominic shouldn't have been able to visit it. Tim finds police reports of Mary's murder case, and discovers that her flesh had been covered with Sanskrit writing similar to what was in her Leitner book.
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Dominic visits a charity shop to kill time before going to see an ex-girlfriend's play on November 10th, 2012, and becomes enthralled by a book written in Latin and bound in what looks like calf leather titled ''Ex Altiora'' whose bookplate reveals it to be "from the library of Jurgen Leitner". Dominic buys the book for £4 and later begins to smell ozone while watching the play. Dominic reasearches ''Ex Altiora'' and Leitner on the internet but can only find an eBay auction from 2007 for another book Leitner had owned, ''The Key of Solomon'', which was sold for £1,200 to a user named grbookworm1818. Graham tries to sell ''Ex Altiora'' so he can learn more from those who would want to buy it, and learns that Leitner was a big name in the 1990s who custom-bound books, had authors write books for him, and had contact with a shop called Pinhole Books before disappearing around 1995. After a play, Dominic wanders and finds Pinhole Books. He meets its manager, Mary Keay, who has a shaved head and tattoos of words all over her body. In the shop Dominic sees a painting of an eye which Mary says was created by her son Gerard, and it has the caption "Grant us the sight that we may not know, grant us the scent that we may not catch, grant us the sound that we may not call". Mary shows Dominic another Leitner book that she owns, and Dominic notices the illustrations in ''Ex Altiora'' have become clearer and he can now see a Lichtenberg figure in one. Dominic remembers a childhood friend who was struck by lighting after Dominic made him play out in the rain, and was permanently scarred with a Lichtenberg figure afterwards. Dominic becomes frightened and runs home. Soon thereafter Dominic is visited by Gerard Keay who offers to buy ''Ex Altiora'' from him for £5,000, which Dominic agreed to since he wanted to get rid of the book but felt only a legal transaction would do it properly. While Gerard goes to get the money, Dominic researches the Keays and discovers that Mary Keay died of a painkiller overdose in 2008 but the death was ruled a murder as her body was skinned and the skins hung to dry. Dominic notes from the pictures that Mary had a full head of hair and no tattoos. He also reads that Gerard was suspected but acquitted since a key piece of evidence was deemed inadmissible. Gerard returns and pays Dominic for ''Ex Altiora'', then immediately burns it in a trash bin after which Dominic stops smelling ozone. Gerard tells Dominic "My mother doesn't always know what's best for our family.", then takes the burning trash bin and leaves.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan expresses displeasure that there are still books from Jurgen Leitner's collection in existence, having thought that they were all taken care of in an incident in 1994, and mentions that Leitner was known to have custom versions of books about demonology and the arcane. Martin and Sasha try to find records of ''Ex Altior''a to no avail. Gerard Keay is unable to be tracked down, having disappeared after his trial. Jonathan mentions that Pinhole Books closed down in 2008 due to Mary's murder, so Dominic shouldn't have been able to visit it. Tim finds police reports of Mary's murder case, and discovers that her flesh had been covered with Sanskrit writing similar to what was in her Leitner book.
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Keiran and his team of garbage collecters find a bag of doll heads that look like they were dragged across concrete outside 93 Lancaster Road. One of the team, Alan Parfitt, is amused and the whole team decides to pay closer attention to what is left outside 93 Lancaster Road in the future. A few months later they get a bag filled with strips of slightly burned paper with the Lord's Prayer written on them in Latin. Two weeks after this, they find a bag containing thousands of teeth in various stages of decay. Keiran and the others decide to call the police, but the elderly residents of 93 Lancaster Road don't know anything about the bags. Alan becomes troubled and begins staking out overnight at 93 Lancaster Road to try to catch whoever is leaving the bags, something Keiran secretly wanted to do as well. Alan gets fired from the team after he falls asleep while driving the garbage truck and hits a car, being replaced by Guy Wardman. At 2:09AM on August 8th, 2008, Keiran gets a text from Alan reading "Found him". When Alan doesn't reply to Keiran's texts back, Keiran decides to go to 93 Lancaster Road where he finds another bag with a dark green bow. The bag is filled with packing peanuts, among which is an anatomical heart made of bronze or copper with Alan's name carved on it, and feels like it just came out of a freezer. Keiran never sees Alan again and has a friend destroy the heart in a medical waste incinerator.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Martin successfully gets an interview with Keiran but he doesn't have any new information regarding the story. Sasha looks through police records and finds a missing person report for Alan filed by by his brother on August 20th, 2008, but Alan was never found. She also finds that the officers who investigated the bag of teeth were named Officer Suresh and Officer Altman, and learns that there were 2,780 teeth in total and that they were the exact same tooth in various stages of decay.
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Keiran and his team of garbage collecters find a bag of doll heads that look like they were dragged across concrete outside 93 Lancaster Road. One of the team, Alan Parfitt, is amused and the whole team decides to pay closer attention to what is left outside 93 Lancaster Road in the future. A few months later they get a bag filled with strips of slightly burned paper with the Lord's Prayer written on them in Latin. Two weeks after this, they find a bag containing thousands of teeth in various stages of decay. Keiran and the others decide to call the police, but the elderly residents of 93 Lancaster Road don't know anything about the bags. Alan becomes troubled and begins staking out overnight at 93 Lancaster Road to try to catch whoever is leaving the bags, something Keiran secretly wanted to do as well. Alan gets fired from the team after he falls asleep while driving the garbage truck and hits a car, being replaced by Guy Wardman. At 2:09AM on August 8th, 2008, Keiran gets a text from Alan reading "Found him". When Alan doesn't reply to Keiran's texts back, Keiran decides to go to 93 Lancaster Road where he finds another bag with a dark green bow. The bag is filled with packing peanuts, among which is an anatomical heart made of bronze or copper with Alan's name carved on it, and feels like it just came out of a freezer. Keiran never sees Alan again and has a friend destroy the heart in a medical waste incinerator.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Martin successfully gets an interview with Keiran but he doesn't have any new information regarding the story. Sasha looks through police records and finds a missing person report for Alan filed by by his brother on August 20th, 2008, but Alan was never found. She also finds that the officers who investigated the bag of teeth were named Officer Suresh and Officer Altman, and learns that there were 2,780 teeth in total and that they were the exact same tooth in various stages of decay.
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Timothy decides to go to a bar on the evening of November 20th, 2014, where he meets Harriet Lee, who seems nervous but ends up going home with him. On the way to his apartment she looks around fearfully and scratches her arms, but calms down once they're inside. She tells him that she was recently mugged by a woman with matted black hair and a red dress who pretended to be incapacitated on the ground until Harriet got close, at which point she jumped on her. Harriet describes feeling a sharp pain in her stomach before blacking out and waking up alone. She tried to go to the police station before becoming violently sick and going to the hospital instead, where the doctors found nothing seriously wrong with her. Harriet started seeing her attacker everywhere and so stayed in crowded places to feel safer. Timothy and Harriet kiss and have sex, after which he feels something moving underneath the skin on her shoulder. Harriet suddenly convulses and screams in pain and Timothy runs to get her painkillers, but suddenly hears a sound like an egg being dropped onto a stone floor, after which Harriet stops screaming. Timothy returns to the bedroom to find that Harriet is now a mass of unrecognizable flesh covered in a black liquid, and there are now worms everywhere in the room. Without even getting dressed first, Timothy sets the place on fire and runs.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha looks through police reports and learns that Timothy's apartment did indeed burn down but there was no evidence of arson or human remains, although there was non-human organic matter found in the bedroom. She also finds a missing person report for Harriet filed shortly after Timothy's report to the archive. Jonathan notes that Harriet's description of her mugging matches the appearance and last known whereabouts of Jane Prentiss. He reports Timothy to the ECDC in hopes of tracking him down.
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Timothy decides to go to a bar on the evening of November 20th, 2014, where he meets Harriet Lee, who seems nervous but ends up going home with him. On the way to his apartment she looks around fearfully and scratches her arms, but calms down once they're inside. She tells him that she was recently mugged by a woman with matted black hair and a red dress who pretended to be incapacitated on the ground until Harriet got close, at which point she jumped on her. Harriet describes feeling a sharp pain in her stomach before blacking out and waking up alone. She tried to go to the police station before becoming violently sick and going to the hospital instead, where the doctors found nothing seriously wrong with her. Harriet started seeing her attacker everywhere and so stayed in crowded places to feel safer. Timothy and Harriet kiss and have sex, after which he feels something moving underneath the skin on her shoulder. Harriet suddenly convulses and screams in pain and Timothy runs to get her painkillers, but suddenly hears a sound like an egg being dropped onto a stone floor, after which Harriet stops screaming. Timothy returns to the bedroom to find that Harriet is now a mass of unrecognizable flesh covered in a black liquid, and there are now worms everywhere in the room. Without even getting dressed first, Timothy sets the place on fire and runs.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha looks through police reports and learns that Timothy's apartment did indeed burn down but there was no evidence of arson or human remains, although there was non-human organic matter found in the bedroom. She also finds a missing person report for Harriet filed shortly after Timothy's report to the archive. Jonathan notes that Harriet's description of her mugging matches the appearance and last known whereabouts of Jane Prentiss. He reports Timothy to the ECDC in hopes of tracking him down.
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Clarence is a sergeant in World War I and is given an assistant in the form of second lieutenant Wilfred Owen. Wilfred is a poet, though not a good one in Clarence's opinion. Clarence notices that when Wilfred recites his poems, he often moves his head as though trying to hear a far-off melody. In a battle, Clarance gets stuck in barbed wire and sees Wilfred swaying quietly, and Clarence thinks he hears distant music before Wilfred is shot and then hit by a mortar. Clarence escapes back to his trench. A week and a half later, some scouts find Wilfred still alive in a crater with the remains of a man named Joseph Rayner. Wilfred tells Clarence that he "met the war", describing a man-sized being with three faces and many limbs, playing pipes, screaming, saluting, and waving weapons all at once. Wilfred begged it to spare him and it gave him a pen, and Wilfred knew it would come back for him. Over time, more soldiers follow the sound of distant music and don't return, reminding Clarence of the story of the Pied Piper. Wilfred's poetry gets better and darker, and he fights harder on the battlefield. Wilfred later tells Clarence "Almost over now" before soon dying in another battle, a gunshot wound opening his head despite him not appearing to have actually been shot. A week later the armistice is signed, and Clarence believes that the peace began the moment Wilfred died.
!!Subsequent Investigation
No investigation was conducted due to the story being nearly a hundred years old, but Jonathan thinks he's heard of Joseph Rayner somewhere before.
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Clarence is a sergeant in World War I and is given an assistant in the form of second lieutenant Wilfred Owen. Wilfred is a poet, though not a good one in Clarence's opinion. Clarence notices that when Wilfred recites his poems, he often moves his head as though trying to hear a far-off melody. In a battle, Clarance gets stuck in barbed wire and sees Wilfred swaying quietly, and Clarence thinks he hears distant music before Wilfred is shot and then hit by a mortar. Clarence escapes back to his trench. A week and a half later, some scouts find Wilfred still alive in a crater with the remains of a man named Joseph Rayner. Wilfred tells Clarence that he "met the war", describing a man-sized being with three faces and many limbs, playing pipes, screaming, saluting, and waving weapons all at once. Wilfred begged it to spare him and it gave him a pen, and Wilfred knew it would come back for him. Over time, more soldiers follow the sound of distant music and don't return, reminding Clarence of the story of the Pied Piper. Wilfred's poetry gets better and darker, and he fights harder on the battlefield. Wilfred later tells Clarence "Almost over now" before soon dying in another battle, a gunshot wound opening his head despite him not appearing to have actually been shot. A week later the armistice is signed, and Clarence believes that the peace began the moment Wilfred died.
!!Subsequent Investigation
No investigation was conducted due to the story being nearly a hundred years old, but Jonathan thinks he's heard of Joseph Rayner somewhere before.
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Ivo works in construction on a house on Hill Top Road as a second job to finance his wedding. On his first day a man named Raymond Fielding arrives, claiming to be the owner and showing the deed as proof. Raymond looks at a huge tree in the garden before disappearing, leaving a burned section of floor and the smell of burning hair. Ivo slips and falls while cleaning the floor and blacks out, then calls an ambulance when he awakes to take him to the John Radcliffe Hospital where he explains to the doctors that schizophrenia runs in the men in his family and he's concerned that he too is starting to develop it. Ivo's father had started developing schizophrenia shortly before his divorce and began devoting hours to studying fractals and worrying over someone coming to stop his research, telling Ivo that he would know when he met this person because "all the bones are in his hands". Ivo's father died later, apparently having committed suicide by wounding himself, although the tool he used was never identified and the coroner mentioned that he had a look of fear on his face. The doctor tells Ivo that he's not developing schizophrenia and discharges him. Before leaving, Ivo speaks to a nurse, a Malaysian woman in her fifties who had been listening to Ivo's conversation, and tells him about the house he's working on. Raymond Fielding had set it up as a halfway house for troubled teens in the 1960s, supported by the local Catholic church. At some point an eleven-year-old girl named Agnes moved into the house, with some believing her to be Fielding's daughter. The other kids in the house became less prominent over time and disappeared, with Fielding claiming that they just moved away. Eventually Agnes was the only one left, now at age eighteen or nineteen. Soon Fielding himself vanished, and neighborhood pets began to disappear. In 1974, a five-year-old child named Henry White went missing. A week afterwords, the Hill Top Road house burned down and locals were slow to call the fire department out of resentment for Agnes. The only human remains found in the house belonged to Fielding, though his right hand was missing. Ivo goes back to work on the house, making sure to never be alone there, until he gets distracted and stays late. Ivo starts to feel heat from within himself until a Catholic priest arrives. The priest, Edwin Burroughs, tells him that the nurse, whose name is Anna Kasuma, sent him to exorcise the house. Ivo goes outside to let Father Burroughs do his work, and becomes consumed with hatred for the tree there. Ivo strikes the tree with a crowbar and blood spills from it. Ivo then connects the tree to his car with a chain and tears it out of the ground, after which he finds an intricate box in the space where the tree was. Inside Ivo finds a fresh green apple, which suddenly rots as he takes it out before thousands of spiders burst out of it. Ivo drops the apple and it turns to dust. Ivo destroys the box and throws the remains in a ditch. Father Burroughs reports to Ivo that he's done what he could and leaves him with a business card. Ivo finishes his work at the house with no more incidents.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Martin can't figure out when the Hill Top Road house burned down but discovers it was first bought by Walter Fielding in 1891 who passed it to his son Alfred Fielding in 1923 and then to his son Raymond in 1957, and although there are no records of it being used as a halfway house it's still a possibility due to the Catholic church that supported it having poor record-keeping. The people of Hill Top Road confirm the history given by Anna Kasuma, who is also interviewed by Tim though she had nothing new to add. Raymond Fielding is found to have died in a house fire, and his obituary mentions his work with troubled youth. Martin also finds record of an Agnes Montague, who was found dead in her home in Sheffield at the age of 26 on November 23rd, 2006, the day Ivo destroyed the tree. She hanged herself and had a severed human hand chained to her waist, though the analysis reported that its owner died at the same time as Agnes Montague. Additionally, Agnes Montague is too young to have been the same Agnes from the story. There have also been no reports of supernatural events at the Hill Top Road house following the story.
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Ivo works in construction on a house on Hill Top Road as a second job to finance his wedding. On his first day a man named Raymond Fielding arrives, claiming to be the owner and showing the deed as proof. Raymond looks at a huge tree in the garden before disappearing, leaving a burned section of floor and the smell of burning hair. Ivo slips and falls while cleaning the floor and blacks out, then calls an ambulance when he awakes to take him to the John Radcliffe Hospital where he explains to the doctors that schizophrenia runs in the men in his family and he's concerned that he too is starting to develop it. Ivo's father had started developing schizophrenia shortly before his divorce and began devoting hours to studying fractals and worrying over someone coming to stop his research, telling Ivo that he would know when he met this person because "all the bones are in his hands". Ivo's father died later, apparently having committed suicide by wounding himself, although the tool he used was never identified and the coroner mentioned that he had a look of fear on his face. The doctor tells Ivo that he's not developing schizophrenia and discharges him. Before leaving, Ivo speaks to a nurse, a Malaysian woman in her fifties who had been listening to Ivo's conversation, and tells him about the house he's working on. Raymond Fielding had set it up as a halfway house for troubled teens in the 1960s, supported by the local Catholic church. At some point an eleven-year-old girl named Agnes moved into the house, with some believing her to be Fielding's daughter. The other kids in the house became less prominent over time and disappeared, with Fielding claiming that they just moved away. Eventually Agnes was the only one left, now at age eighteen or nineteen. Soon Fielding himself vanished, and neighborhood pets began to disappear. In 1974, a five-year-old child named Henry White went missing. A week afterwords, the Hill Top Road house burned down and locals were slow to call the fire department out of resentment for Agnes. The only human remains found in the house belonged to Fielding, though his right hand was missing. Ivo goes back to work on the house, making sure to never be alone there, until he gets distracted and stays late. Ivo starts to feel heat from within himself until a Catholic priest arrives. The priest, Edwin Burroughs, tells him that the nurse, whose name is Anna Kasuma, sent him to exorcise the house. Ivo goes outside to let Father Burroughs do his work, and becomes consumed with hatred for the tree there. Ivo strikes the tree with a crowbar and blood spills from it. Ivo then connects the tree to his car with a chain and tears it out of the ground, after which he finds an intricate box in the space where the tree was. Inside Ivo finds a fresh green apple, which suddenly rots as he takes it out before thousands of spiders burst out of it. Ivo drops the apple and it turns to dust. Ivo destroys the box and throws the remains in a ditch. Father Burroughs reports to Ivo that he's done what he could and leaves him with a business card. Ivo finishes his work at the house with no more incidents.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Martin can't figure out when the Hill Top Road house burned down but discovers it was first bought by Walter Fielding in 1891 who passed it to his son Alfred Fielding in 1923 and then to his son Raymond in 1957, and although there are no records of it being used as a halfway house it's still a possibility due to the Catholic church that supported it having poor record-keeping. The people of Hill Top Road confirm the history given by Anna Kasuma, who is also interviewed by Tim though she had nothing new to add. Raymond Fielding is found to have died in a house fire, and his obituary mentions his work with troubled youth. Martin also finds record of an Agnes Montague, who was found dead in her home in Sheffield at the age of 26 on November 23rd, 2006, the day Ivo destroyed the tree. She hanged herself and had a severed human hand chained to her waist, though the analysis reported that its owner died at the same time as Agnes Montague. Additionally, Agnes Montague is too young to have been the same Agnes from the story. There have also been no reports of supernatural events at the Hill Top Road house following the story.
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Julia is the daughter of infamous serial killer Robert Montauk, who is known to have killed at least forty people in the five years he was active. Julia has always lived in York Road in Dartford. At age 7, Julia hears sounds in the night and finds the back door left open and her mother's pendant, which has an abstract hand and closed eye design, left on the kitchen table. Julia wakes up her father, who becomes concerned and turns on the water, which flows dark and brackish. The kitchen light burns out and Robert sends Julia back to bed before leaving. In the morning, Robert tells Julia that her mother is gone. Although it wasn't discovered until later, Robert never filed a missing person report for his wife despite being a police officer. Julia also notes that she doesn't think her father killed her mother because of how disraught he was by her disappearance. Robert starts spending a lot of time in the shed in the back yard, which starts to smell like canned meat. One night Robert comes into Julia's room while he thinks she is sleeping, wearing stained clothes and smelling of blood and brackish water, and he promises to always protect Julia. Robert becomes perpetually injured and bloodstains often appear around the house, but Julia assumes they're her father's and becomes adept at cleaning them out. Robert tells Julia that he's been moved to the night shift, though he actually quit the police force. At age 10, Julia, now having been given permission to answer the phone and taught how to talk to someone on it, takes a call from someone calling themselves Detective Rayner, sounding old and possibly German and wanting to speak to Robert. Robert tells him "no" "not already" and "do it yourself" before saying he would do something soon, before spending the rest of the day in the shed. In the present, Julia mentions that she doesn't know what her father did with the bodies, which were never recovered, but admits she hadn't told the police about her father's photographs. In the past Julia notices film canisters starting to pile up, and Robert tells her that he's learning photography but doesn't trust anyone to develop the photos. Julia suggests he set up his own dark room to develop them himself, an idea which he loves and carries out. Robert always keeps the dark room locked until one day leaving the key in the lock. Julia enters and sees photographs of faces of people she doesn't know, with symbols drawn on the faces. Julia later asks Robert about the photographs, and he hugs her and apologizes. At 2:47AM that night, Julia gets up for water but gets brackish water from the tap, then she sees the streetlights outside burning out one by one. She hears knocking at the door which gradually changes to sound like wet meat slapping against the door. Julia calls the police just before the door breaks and she hears growling. Julia flees outside towards the shed, which now glows with blue light. She goes inside and sees Robert with a cut open corpse, holding a knife and the dead person's heart, as well as many hearts in jars on shelves. Robert chants and all the hearts beat in time with him as whatever broke through the door gets closer. Robert stabs the heart and the entity disappears along with the blue light. The police arrive and Robert runs after apologizing to Julia, who notices that the corpse has a pendant matching her mother's. Robert is soon captured by the police.
!!Subsequent Investigation
The last victim of Robert Montauk, whose body was seen by Julia, is confirmed to be Christopher Lorne. In total there were forty-one hearts including Lorne's. The pendant is of the People's Church of the Divine Host, founded by a former Pentecostal minister, Maxwell Rayner. Jonathan notes that he has the same surname as Joseph Rayner, whose name he recognized from the story of The Piper, though he thinks it's coincidental. Lorne was a member of Rayner's cult and hadn't had contact with his family for six years preceding his death. Rayner disappeared in 1994 and the cult disbanded thereafter. Robert died in Wakefield Prison on November 1st, 2002, having suffered forty-seven stab wounds to the chest. The weapon wasn't identified and Robert was in a locked cell with the light burned out.
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Julia is the daughter of infamous serial killer Robert Montauk, who is known to have killed at least forty people in the five years he was active. Julia has always lived in York Road in Dartford. At age 7, Julia hears sounds in the night and finds the back door left open and her mother's pendant, which has an abstract hand and closed eye design, left on the kitchen table. Julia wakes up her father, who becomes concerned and turns on the water, which flows dark and brackish. The kitchen light burns out and Robert sends Julia back to bed before leaving. In the morning, Robert tells Julia that her mother is gone. Although it wasn't discovered until later, Robert never filed a missing person report for his wife despite being a police officer. Julia also notes that she doesn't think her father killed her mother because of how disraught he was by her disappearance. Robert starts spending a lot of time in the shed in the back yard, which starts to smell like canned meat. One night Robert comes into Julia's room while he thinks she is sleeping, wearing stained clothes and smelling of blood and brackish water, and he promises to always protect Julia. Robert becomes perpetually injured and bloodstains often appear around the house, but Julia assumes they're her father's and becomes adept at cleaning them out. Robert tells Julia that he's been moved to the night shift, though he actually quit the police force. At age 10, Julia, now having been given permission to answer the phone and taught how to talk to someone on it, takes a call from someone calling themselves Detective Rayner, sounding old and possibly German and wanting to speak to Robert. Robert tells him "no" "not already" and "do it yourself" before saying he would do something soon, before spending the rest of the day in the shed. In the present, Julia mentions that she doesn't know what her father did with the bodies, which were never recovered, but admits she hadn't told the police about her father's photographs. In the past Julia notices film canisters starting to pile up, and Robert tells her that he's learning photography but doesn't trust anyone to develop the photos. Julia suggests he set up his own dark room to develop them himself, an idea which he loves and carries out. Robert always keeps the dark room locked until one day leaving the key in the lock. Julia enters and sees photographs of faces of people she doesn't know, with symbols drawn on the faces. Julia later asks Robert about the photographs, and he hugs her and apologizes. At 2:47AM that night, Julia gets up for water but gets brackish water from the tap, then she sees the streetlights outside burning out one by one. She hears knocking at the door which gradually changes to sound like wet meat slapping against the door. Julia calls the police just before the door breaks and she hears growling. Julia flees outside towards the shed, which now glows with blue light. She goes inside and sees Robert with a cut open corpse, holding a knife and the dead person's heart, as well as many hearts in jars on shelves. Robert chants and all the hearts beat in time with him as whatever broke through the door gets closer. Robert stabs the heart and the entity disappears along with the blue light. The police arrive and Robert runs after apologizing to Julia, who notices that the corpse has a pendant matching her mother's. Robert is soon captured by the police.
!!Subsequent Investigation
The last victim of Robert Montauk, whose body was seen by Julia, is confirmed to be Christopher Lorne. In total there were forty-one hearts including Lorne's. The pendant is of the People's Church of the Divine Host, founded by a former Pentecostal minister, Maxwell Rayner. Jonathan notes that he has the same surname as Joseph Rayner, whose name he recognized from the story of The Piper, though he thinks it's coincidental. Lorne was a member of Rayner's cult and hadn't had contact with his family for six years preceding his death. Rayner disappeared in 1994 and the cult disbanded thereafter. Robert died in Wakefield Prison on November 1st, 2002, having suffered forty-seven stab wounds to the chest. The weapon wasn't identified and Robert was in a locked cell with the light burned out.
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Trevor is a homeless man in Manchester. His father kills his mother while drunk in 1956, which was ruled an accident. His father dies of his alcoholism four months later. Trevor and his brother Nigel spend some time in the system but since they keep getting separated they run away to live on the streets. In the present, Trevor explains that vampires are more like animals than humans. They don't speak since there's no room in their mouth and throat for anything but their tongue, but can clearly communicate in some nonverbal way. Contrary to popular belief, they can go out in sunlight and don't convert their prey to vampires as there's too few of them for that to be the case. Trevor mentions that he doesn't know how vampires dispose of their victims' bodies. In the autumn of 1959, Trevor and Nigel meet a creature calling itself Sylvia [=McDonald=], which offers them a place to stay. The brothers are put in seperate rooms but Trevor becomes uneasy and goes to Nigel's room where the two agree to sneak out. Their plan is interrupted by [=McDonald=], which attacks Nigel as Trevor hides under the bed. Revealing shark-like teeth, [=McDonald=] tears out Nigel's throat and uses its proboscis-like tongue to drain his blood. Once finished, it lies on the floor to digest and Trevor stabs it with Nigel's penknife, bursting its belly before setting it on fire with a candle, noting that it must have been quite dry as it burned quickly. Trevor runs away as the house burns. In June 1968, Trevor has convinced himself that his brother's death had nothing to do with the supernatural, but the trauma and grief made it seem that way. Trevor learns otherwise when begging for money and a man named Robert Arden communicates nonverbally with him, and Trevor realizes that it's a vampire. Trevor follows it and its victim to its lair and attacks it before it can kill her. Arden bites into Trevor's neck but recoils, something Trevor credits to heroin in his body, as he has been addicted for some time. Arden's would-be victim attacks it with a kitchen knife before Trevor impales it with an improvised stake. The woman flees and Trevor burns the vampire. In 1982 Trevor kills a man named Alard Dupont, but he turns out to be a real human and not a vampire, although Trevor doesn't feel too bad because Dupont was a violent criminal. In the present, Trevor tells Martin, who is overseeing the recording, that he needs some sleep before continuing. Martin sends him to the break room where he dies of the lung cancer he knew would take him soon.
!!Subsequent Investigation
News reports of a house fire in 1959 are found, with confirmation that the remains of an eighteen-year-old boy were present. Police records also confirm the disappearance of Robert Arden as well as the death of Alard Dupont, who was found burned in his home on August 2nd, 1982. According to the Institute's records, Trevor had brought a bag of what looked to be shark's teeth, though analysis could not identify them as belonging to any known species. The teeth have since been lost, though they have been asked for by various law enforcement agencies and governments.
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Trevor is a homeless man in Manchester. His father kills his mother while drunk in 1956, which was ruled an accident. His father dies of his alcoholism four months later. Trevor and his brother Nigel spend some time in the system but since they keep getting separated they run away to live on the streets. In the present, Trevor explains that vampires are more like animals than humans. They don't speak since there's no room in their mouth and throat for anything but their tongue, but can clearly communicate in some nonverbal way. Contrary to popular belief, they can go out in sunlight and don't convert their prey to vampires as there's too few of them for that to be the case. Trevor mentions that he doesn't know how vampires dispose of their victims' bodies. In the autumn of 1959, Trevor and Nigel meet a creature calling itself Sylvia [=McDonald=], which offers them a place to stay. The brothers are put in seperate rooms but Trevor becomes uneasy and goes to Nigel's room where the two agree to sneak out. Their plan is interrupted by [=McDonald=], which attacks Nigel as Trevor hides under the bed. Revealing shark-like teeth, [=McDonald=] tears out Nigel's throat and uses its proboscis-like tongue to drain his blood. Once finished, it lies on the floor to digest and Trevor stabs it with Nigel's penknife, bursting its belly before setting it on fire with a candle, noting that it must have been quite dry as it burned quickly. Trevor runs away as the house burns. In June 1968, Trevor has convinced himself that his brother's death had nothing to do with the supernatural, but the trauma and grief made it seem that way. Trevor learns otherwise when begging for money and a man named Robert Arden communicates nonverbally with him, and Trevor realizes that it's a vampire. Trevor follows it and its victim to its lair and attacks it before it can kill her. Arden bites into Trevor's neck but recoils, something Trevor credits to heroin in his body, as he has been addicted for some time. Arden's would-be victim attacks it with a kitchen knife before Trevor impales it with an improvised stake. The woman flees and Trevor burns the vampire. In 1982 Trevor kills a man named Alard Dupont, but he turns out to be a real human and not a vampire, although Trevor doesn't feel too bad because Dupont was a violent criminal. In the present, Trevor tells Martin, who is overseeing the recording, that he needs some sleep before continuing. Martin sends him to the break room where he dies of the lung cancer he knew would take him soon.
!!Subsequent Investigation
News reports of a house fire in 1959 are found, with confirmation that the remains of an eighteen-year-old boy were present. Police records also confirm the disappearance of Robert Arden as well as the death of Alard Dupont, who was found burned in his home on August 2nd, 1982. According to the Institute's records, Trevor had brought a bag of what looked to be shark's teeth, though analysis could not identify them as belonging to any known species. The teeth have since been lost, though they have been asked for by various law enforcement agencies and governments.
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Antonio starts by saying that he lied his way into telling his story to the archive, since they typically don't take stories about dreams, but he believes it to be critical that the person who reviews the stories reads his story. Antonio begins having a recurring dream around 2006 shortly after a nervous breakdown that resulted in him breaking up with his boyfriend, Graham, and moving out. Staying over at a friend's house, Antonio has a dream of a hellscape London filled with black tendrils that grow into people in various ways. Antonio follows some tendrils into his old workplace where he sees his former line manager suspended from the neck by the tendrils. Antonio contacts his former colleagues after this and learns that the manager hanged himself after losing a custody battle. As Antonio continues to have the dream he realizes he is seeing how people have died or will die. He tries reading books on esoteric dreaming while working in a magic shop but can't figure anything out. Antonio starts to see his father in his dream with the tendrils going into his chest. Antonio makes lots of efforts to keep his father alive and healthy but he dies of a heart attack on December 31st, 2014, ten days after Antonio saw him in the dream. Later, on March 12th, 2015, Antonio sees a dark red light flowing through the tendrils and thinks he can see faces and shadows as well. He follows the veins to a building called The Magnus Institute where the veins go into a room labelled 'Archive'. He sees a woman behind a desk wrapped in the tendrils with an expression of fear as the light pours into her. Two days later, he goes to the real Magnus Institute to give his story in the hopes that the woman who works there will be warned of her coming death and can possibly avoid it.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan thinks that this story could be a hazing joke from other Magnus Institute employees and is unsure whether to talk to Elias about it, since all he's said about Jonathan's predecessor Gertrude is that she "died in the line of duty". Tim's research shows that 'Antonio Blake' is a pseudonym if not a nonexistent person entirely, and all the contact information with his name is false. Still, Jonathan decides to have Rosie pass any similar reports to him, since if someone starts having dreams about his death, he definitely wants to know about it.
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Antonio starts by saying that he lied his way into telling his story to the archive, since they typically don't take stories about dreams, but he believes it to be critical that the person who reviews the stories reads his story. Antonio begins having a recurring dream around 2006 shortly after a nervous breakdown that resulted in him breaking up with his boyfriend, Graham, and moving out. Staying over at a friend's house, Antonio has a dream of a hellscape London filled with black tendrils that grow into people in various ways. Antonio follows some tendrils into his old workplace where he sees his former line manager suspended from the neck by the tendrils. Antonio contacts his former colleagues after this and learns that the manager hanged himself after losing a custody battle. As Antonio continues to have the dream he realizes he is seeing how people have died or will die. He tries reading books on esoteric dreaming while working in a magic shop but can't figure anything out. Antonio starts to see his father in his dream with the tendrils going into his chest. Antonio makes lots of efforts to keep his father alive and healthy but he dies of a heart attack on December 31st, 2014, ten days after Antonio saw him in the dream. Later, on March 12th, 2015, Antonio sees a dark red light flowing through the tendrils and thinks he can see faces and shadows as well. He follows the veins to a building called The Magnus Institute where the veins go into a room labelled 'Archive'. He sees a woman behind a desk wrapped in the tendrils with an expression of fear as the light pours into her. Two days later, he goes to the real Magnus Institute to give his story in the hopes that the woman who works there will be warned of her coming death and can possibly avoid it.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan thinks that this story could be a hazing joke from other Magnus Institute employees and is unsure whether to talk to Elias about it, since all he's said about Jonathan's predecessor Gertrude is that she "died in the line of duty". Tim's research shows that 'Antonio Blake' is a pseudonym if not a nonexistent person entirely, and all the contact information with his name is false. Still, Jonathan decides to have Rosie pass any similar reports to him, since if someone starts having dreams about his death, he definitely wants to know about it.
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Lesere works at St. Thomas Hospital near Waterloo. At 1:30AM on December 23rd, 2011, two burn victims are brought in for treatment by Lesere's superior, Dr. Kayleigh Grice. Lesere notices that the A&E room is totally silent as the two men are brought in, despite still being full of people. One victim is completely covered in second degree burns, although his clothing is strangely intact. The second is similarly burned up to a line on his neck, and he has tattoos of eyes on his joints and over his heart which seem unaffected by the burns. The second man also has a zippo lighter and a passport identifying him as Gerard Keay. The two men were found in a churchyard by a fire brigade who had been called to a fire at a nearby building site. Although there was no fire at the churchyard, the ground had burn marks and a nearby metal bar was bent as if it was slightly melted by heat. Later in the night, Lesere hears the unidentified man chanting in his sleep sounding like "Asah, veepalach, the lightless flame" and his skin is warm. Lesere goes to the waiting room to find it unusually empty. She then hears growling and sees a vending machine's drinks boil and explode. Running towards the exit, she finds the door handles deforming under extreme heat. She returns to the ward to find the unidentified man chanting loudly with his eyes open. Lesere reaches for his mouth to silence him but Keay stops her, telling her that it's not a good idea to touch the other man while not seeming to be in pain from his burns. Keay asks Lesere if a book bound in red leather and a brass pendant, possibly with an eye emblem, were recovered and brought to the hospital with them, to which she answers that there were no such items brought in. Keay goes to a storage room, somehow knowing the access code, and selects a scapel before coming back into the ward. Knowing that Keay intends to kill the other burn victim, Lesere decides to stand aside and let him do it, for which he nods to her and says "Yes, for you better Beholding than the Lightless Flame". A nearby container of saline begins to boil. Keay mutters inaudibly before stabbing the other burn victim in the throat. The burn victim's body turns to ash along with the scapel that killed him. Lesere begins cleaning up the ashes and sees Dr. Grice in the hallway, before running to the waiting room to see it filled again. Relieved, Lesere goes back to work. Keay remains in the hospital for four more days during which he remains unconscious, before being discharged to his mother's care. Lesere continues to feel as though she's being watched at work, especially near the storeroom.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha looks through police reports and finds records of Gerard Keay and another man arriving at the hospital and Keay later being released while the other victim disappeared, though there was no evidence of foul play and no missing person report. Jonathan analyzes the chanting the unnamed victim did in the story: 'Asag' is the name of a demon in Sumerian mythology who was associated with disease and corruption and was said to cause rivers to boil due to its ugliness. 'Veepalach' may be a mispronounciation of the Polish word wypalać, meaning 'to cauterize or brand'. Gerard Keay is found to have died of a brain tumor in late 2014. Lesere is offered an interview which she declines, but says that she still gets the feeling of being watched. Sasha accesses the hospital's CCTV which shows that at 03:11:22 all the people in the waiting room calmly stood up and walked out, before Lesere is seen entering and leaving three times. The people return to the waiting room at 03:27:12. But at 03:22:52, the feed cuts out to a single frame of a human eye.
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Lesere works at St. Thomas Hospital near Waterloo. At 1:30AM on December 23rd, 2011, two burn victims are brought in for treatment by Lesere's superior, Dr. Kayleigh Grice. Lesere notices that the A&E room is totally silent as the two men are brought in, despite still being full of people. One victim is completely covered in second degree burns, although his clothing is strangely intact. The second is similarly burned up to a line on his neck, and he has tattoos of eyes on his joints and over his heart which seem unaffected by the burns. The second man also has a zippo lighter and a passport identifying him as Gerard Keay. The two men were found in a churchyard by a fire brigade who had been called to a fire at a nearby building site. Although there was no fire at the churchyard, the ground had burn marks and a nearby metal bar was bent as if it was slightly melted by heat. Later in the night, Lesere hears the unidentified man chanting in his sleep sounding like "Asah, veepalach, the lightless flame" and his skin is warm. Lesere goes to the waiting room to find it unusually empty. She then hears growling and sees a vending machine's drinks boil and explode. Running towards the exit, she finds the door handles deforming under extreme heat. She returns to the ward to find the unidentified man chanting loudly with his eyes open. Lesere reaches for his mouth to silence him but Keay stops her, telling her that it's not a good idea to touch the other man while not seeming to be in pain from his burns. Keay asks Lesere if a book bound in red leather and a brass pendant, possibly with an eye emblem, were recovered and brought to the hospital with them, to which she answers that there were no such items brought in. Keay goes to a storage room, somehow knowing the access code, and selects a scapel before coming back into the ward. Knowing that Keay intends to kill the other burn victim, Lesere decides to stand aside and let him do it, for which he nods to her and says "Yes, for you better Beholding than the Lightless Flame". A nearby container of saline begins to boil. Keay mutters inaudibly before stabbing the other burn victim in the throat. The burn victim's body turns to ash along with the scapel that killed him. Lesere begins cleaning up the ashes and sees Dr. Grice in the hallway, before running to the waiting room to see it filled again. Relieved, Lesere goes back to work. Keay remains in the hospital for four more days during which he remains unconscious, before being discharged to his mother's care. Lesere continues to feel as though she's being watched at work, especially near the storeroom.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha looks through police reports and finds records of Gerard Keay and another man arriving at the hospital and Keay later being released while the other victim disappeared, though there was no evidence of foul play and no missing person report. Jonathan analyzes the chanting the unnamed victim did in the story: 'Asag' is the name of a demon in Sumerian mythology who was associated with disease and corruption and was said to cause rivers to boil due to its ugliness. 'Veepalach' may be a mispronounciation of the Polish word wypalać, meaning 'to cauterize or brand'. Gerard Keay is found to have died of a brain tumor in late 2014. Lesere is offered an interview which she declines, but says that she still gets the feeling of being watched. Sasha accesses the hospital's CCTV which shows that at 03:11:22 all the people in the waiting room calmly stood up and walked out, before Lesere is seen entering and leaving three times. The people return to the waiting room at 03:27:12. But at 03:22:52, the feed cuts out to a single frame of a human eye.
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Naomi meets Evan Lukas when they both interviewed for a lab technician job, after which they date and move in together. Two years later, Naomi proposes to Evan and he accepts, but he dies of heart problems on March 22nd, 2015. A week after his death, his funeral is held at his family's home, though Evan wasn't close with them due to religious differences. Evan's father lets Naomi in, only saying "My son is in there. He is dead." Naomi sees that all of the Lukas family have miserable faces and lifeless eyes. After Naomi has a moment to see Evan's body in the casket, an old man tells her "It's time for you to leave. The burial is a family affair. I'm sure you want to be alone." Naomi can't reply and leaves. She crashes her car at 11:12PM, about 6 hours after leaving the funeral. She continues on foot in the rain, which eventually stops to be replaced by thick fog which Naomi feels to want something from her. Naomi gets lost, having wandered away from the road at some point. She finds her way to a cemetery, at the center of which is a chapel with stained glass windows and the doors chained. After calling out for help, Naomi picks up a piece of stone that had broken off one of the gravestones, before seeing that the grave is open and empty. The fog pulls Naomi towards the grave but she manages to escape and sees that the chapel has opened. Inside she sees a large field filled with moonlight and the same fog as outside. Behind her is the same sight but without moonlight. Naomi decides to run away from the chapel, but the fog thickens and she loses her way again. Naomi hears Evan's voice tell her to turn left and she obeys, then gets hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Since Naomi arrived to give her statement after Jonathan started converting reports to audio files, he has her record hers but the digital recording corrupts so she has to use a tape recorder instead. After finishing her story, Jonathan suggests that Naomi see a psychiatrist, which angers her. It is found that the driver who hit Naomi was Michael Getty. There are no cemeteries in the area she was hit, and a storm at the time would have dissipated any fog. The Lukas family refuses to share information. Jonathan wants to dismiss Naomi's story as a grief-induced hallucination, but cannot as she still had the piece of gravestone in her hand when she was found, which has the word "forgotten" carved on it. Jonathan cannot find where the piece of stone came from.
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Naomi meets Evan Lukas when they both interviewed for a lab technician job, after which they date and move in together. Two years later, Naomi proposes to Evan and he accepts, but he dies of heart problems on March 22nd, 2015. A week after his death, his funeral is held at his family's home, though Evan wasn't close with them due to religious differences. Evan's father lets Naomi in, only saying "My son is in there. He is dead." Naomi sees that all of the Lukas family have miserable faces and lifeless eyes. After Naomi has a moment to see Evan's body in the casket, an old man tells her "It's time for you to leave. The burial is a family affair. I'm sure you want to be alone." Naomi can't reply and leaves. She crashes her car at 11:12PM, about 6 hours after leaving the funeral. She continues on foot in the rain, which eventually stops to be replaced by thick fog which Naomi feels to want something from her. Naomi gets lost, having wandered away from the road at some point. She finds her way to a cemetery, at the center of which is a chapel with stained glass windows and the doors chained. After calling out for help, Naomi picks up a piece of stone that had broken off one of the gravestones, before seeing that the grave is open and empty. The fog pulls Naomi towards the grave but she manages to escape and sees that the chapel has opened. Inside she sees a large field filled with moonlight and the same fog as outside. Behind her is the same sight but without moonlight. Naomi decides to run away from the chapel, but the fog thickens and she loses her way again. Naomi hears Evan's voice tell her to turn left and she obeys, then gets hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Since Naomi arrived to give her statement after Jonathan started converting reports to audio files, he has her record hers but the digital recording corrupts so she has to use a tape recorder instead. After finishing her story, Jonathan suggests that Naomi see a psychiatrist, which angers her. It is found that the driver who hit Naomi was Michael Getty. There are no cemeteries in the area she was hit, and a storm at the time would have dissipated any fog. The Lukas family refuses to share information. Jonathan wants to dismiss Naomi's story as a grief-induced hallucination, but cannot as she still had the piece of gravestone in her hand when she was found, which has the word "forgotten" carved on it. Jonathan cannot find where the piece of stone came from.
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Lee wants revenge on Paul Noriega, a former colleage of his, because Paul beat up a man named Toby [=McMullen=] but Toby blamed Lee instead, causing him to spend five years in prison. Toby tells Lee that he blamed him because Paul bribed him with the promise of drugs which he never followed through on, so Toby wants revenge too. Toby suggests they hire a killer he knows of who uses magic. Lee decides to go along and they to go to see the killer, a stereotypical old woman named Angela. Angela asks Lee if he wants Paul dead, and Lee says that he does and that he wants Paul to suffer on the way to his death. For payment, Angela asks for something of Paul's that wasn't a gift, and Lee gives her a lighter that belonged to Paul before Lee borrowed it and ended up not giving it back. After three weeks nothing has happened to Paul, so Lee decides to do it himself. Lee waits outside a business deal Paul has with a Samoan art dealer named Salesa. After Salesa and his men leave, Lee pounces on Paul and kills him with a knife. After Paul is dead, Lee sees that he has a glass eye and is missing some fingers and teeth, which is new to Lee. Lee disposes of Paul's body in an unspecified way and decides to lay low to avoid Paul's lackeys. Five days later, Lee finds a box wrapped in brown paper at a bridge, upon which is written his name and "for immediate consideration". Lee finds a finger inside the box. He hurries home but trips on the way, severing one of his fingers. Lee can't find his finger, and the stump has somehow healed over already. After getting home, Lee finds another box with two toes inside. He later loses two toes when his TV falls off the wall. Over the next two weeks, Lee finds more boxes with body parts shortly before losing the same body part, including four fingers, most of his toes, an eye, and several teeth. Nothing prevents the loss, even when he stays inside an empty room as a toe apparently disappeared while he slept. Lee goes back to see Angela and asks her to remove the curse that he seemingly inherited by killing Paul, and she only says "Some hungers are too strong to be denied." Lee tries to attack Angela, but ends up chewing one of his hands off. Later he gets a box containing a tongue, prompting him to go to the Institute that very day.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan reveals that Lee became more violet after telling his story and after some unclear events was hospitalized, likely without his tongue. Lee had mentioned before that he knew about the Institute because a friend of his, Hester, had given them a story involving ghosts. Sasha looks through police records and confirms that Lee told the truth about his relationship with Paul, and that the police last had contact with Paul two months before Lee came to the Institute. Martin tries to track down Angela but can't find her even after three days of research. Tim tries to track down Lee but he disappeared in April 2011. When Lee's landlord went to clean out his apartment, they found nothing but hundreds of cardboard boxes.
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Lee wants revenge on Paul Noriega, a former colleage of his, because Paul beat up a man named Toby [=McMullen=] but Toby blamed Lee instead, causing him to spend five years in prison. Toby tells Lee that he blamed him because Paul bribed him with the promise of drugs which he never followed through on, so Toby wants revenge too. Toby suggests they hire a killer he knows of who uses magic. Lee decides to go along and they to go to see the killer, a stereotypical old woman named Angela. Angela asks Lee if he wants Paul dead, and Lee says that he does and that he wants Paul to suffer on the way to his death. For payment, Angela asks for something of Paul's that wasn't a gift, and Lee gives her a lighter that belonged to Paul before Lee borrowed it and ended up not giving it back. After three weeks nothing has happened to Paul, so Lee decides to do it himself. Lee waits outside a business deal Paul has with a Samoan art dealer named Salesa. After Salesa and his men leave, Lee pounces on Paul and kills him with a knife. After Paul is dead, Lee sees that he has a glass eye and is missing some fingers and teeth, which is new to Lee. Lee disposes of Paul's body in an unspecified way and decides to lay low to avoid Paul's lackeys. Five days later, Lee finds a box wrapped in brown paper at a bridge, upon which is written his name and "for immediate consideration". Lee finds a finger inside the box. He hurries home but trips on the way, severing one of his fingers. Lee can't find his finger, and the stump has somehow healed over already. After getting home, Lee finds another box with two toes inside. He later loses two toes when his TV falls off the wall. Over the next two weeks, Lee finds more boxes with body parts shortly before losing the same body part, including four fingers, most of his toes, an eye, and several teeth. Nothing prevents the loss, even when he stays inside an empty room as a toe apparently disappeared while he slept. Lee goes back to see Angela and asks her to remove the curse that he seemingly inherited by killing Paul, and she only says "Some hungers are too strong to be denied." Lee tries to attack Angela, but ends up chewing one of his hands off. Later he gets a box containing a tongue, prompting him to go to the Institute that very day.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan reveals that Lee became more violet after telling his story and after some unclear events was hospitalized, likely without his tongue. Lee had mentioned before that he knew about the Institute because a friend of his, Hester, had given them a story involving ghosts. Sasha looks through police records and confirms that Lee told the truth about his relationship with Paul, and that the police last had contact with Paul two months before Lee came to the Institute. Martin tries to track down Angela but can't find her even after three days of research. Tim tries to track down Lee but he disappeared in April 2011. When Lee's landlord went to clean out his apartment, they found nothing but hundreds of cardboard boxes.
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Laura loves caving, and starts doing it with her sister, Alena Sanderson, after she lost her home and job to cheer her up. They often go on one trip per year. In June 2014, the sisters decide to explore Lost Johns' Cave, part of the Three Counties cave system, and part of the exploration in the cave will involve diving. The sisters tell the CNCC (Council of Northen Caving Clubs) as well as Laura's husband Alistair of their plans in case things go wrong. Arriving at the cave, the sisters find no one else at the cave despite perfect conditions. They go in at noon and follow the map of the cave, but some spaces are tigher than they expect. When they stop for lunch, Alena explains to Laura that most people misspell the cave's name by writing "John's" instead of "Johns'", as the cave is named after a legend where two men named John got lost in the cave when their candles went out. Alena jokes that she would be okay being lost in a cave if she was with Laura, but Laura secretly disagrees. The sisters reach the dive and get through it, the only issue being a prank Alena pulls on Laura, prompting her to insist that they leave the cave to which Alena agrees. Laura hears a low, rough voice ask her how lost she is and she answers that she isn't, confusing Alena as she heard no voice. Laura goes back through the dive and seemingly finds her way into an uncharted space, and doesn't hear Alena come out of the water. Laura looks for a place large enough to turn herself around but can't, so tries to slide backwards but immediately hits a wall. Realizing she is trapped, Laura screams and her light burns out. Laura soon sees a far off light and follows it, and discovers it to be a candle held by a pale hand. Hearing Alena scream in the distance, Laura closes her eyes and wishes it all away. Laura opens her eyes and sees the light is now daylight, and she makes it to the surface. Laura screams until she is found by Alistair and a rescue team, from whom she learns that she was in the cave for twenty-four hours. No trace of Alena is ever found.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan doesn't think that this story is true for the most part, as Laura and Alena were never given permits by the CNCC to go to Lost Johns' Cave although other people were. Sasha cannot find any possible way in the cave that matches Laura's story. Tim discovers that Alistair did in fact call the CNCC on June 15th about his wife and sister-in-law. Laura, when rescued, was not at the surface but near the bottom of Death's Head Hole, the first cave the sisters would have gone through on their expedition, where she knelt beside a pile of burnt-out candles which she didn't bring into the cave according to Alistair. Laura also brought a video camera into the cave, which she didn't mention in the story. Tim secured copies of videos taken during the event. The early recordings corroborate Laura's account of the early stage of the expedition. The last recording, starting at 2AM on June 15th, has no video (either because it was too dark in the cave or the lens was covered), and the audio has someone whispering "Take her, not me." over and over with sounds of water and scraping rocks for two hours and forty-three minutes.
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Laura loves caving, and starts doing it with her sister, Alena Sanderson, after she lost her home and job to cheer her up. They often go on one trip per year. In June 2014, the sisters decide to explore Lost Johns' Cave, part of the Three Counties cave system, and part of the exploration in the cave will involve diving. The sisters tell the CNCC (Council of Northen Caving Clubs) as well as Laura's husband Alistair of their plans in case things go wrong. Arriving at the cave, the sisters find no one else at the cave despite perfect conditions. They go in at noon and follow the map of the cave, but some spaces are tigher than they expect. When they stop for lunch, Alena explains to Laura that most people misspell the cave's name by writing "John's" instead of "Johns'", as the cave is named after a legend where two men named John got lost in the cave when their candles went out. Alena jokes that she would be okay being lost in a cave if she was with Laura, but Laura secretly disagrees. The sisters reach the dive and get through it, the only issue being a prank Alena pulls on Laura, prompting her to insist that they leave the cave to which Alena agrees. Laura hears a low, rough voice ask her how lost she is and she answers that she isn't, confusing Alena as she heard no voice. Laura goes back through the dive and seemingly finds her way into an uncharted space, and doesn't hear Alena come out of the water. Laura looks for a place large enough to turn herself around but can't, so tries to slide backwards but immediately hits a wall. Realizing she is trapped, Laura screams and her light burns out. Laura soon sees a far off light and follows it, and discovers it to be a candle held by a pale hand. Hearing Alena scream in the distance, Laura closes her eyes and wishes it all away. Laura opens her eyes and sees the light is now daylight, and she makes it to the surface. Laura screams until she is found by Alistair and a rescue team, from whom she learns that she was in the cave for twenty-four hours. No trace of Alena is ever found.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan doesn't think that this story is true for the most part, as Laura and Alena were never given permits by the CNCC to go to Lost Johns' Cave although other people were. Sasha cannot find any possible way in the cave that matches Laura's story. Tim discovers that Alistair did in fact call the CNCC on June 15th about his wife and sister-in-law. Laura, when rescued, was not at the surface but near the bottom of Death's Head Hole, the first cave the sisters would have gone through on their expedition, where she knelt beside a pile of burnt-out candles which she didn't bring into the cave according to Alistair. Laura also brought a video camera into the cave, which she didn't mention in the story. Tim secured copies of videos taken during the event. The early recordings corroborate Laura's account of the early stage of the expedition. The last recording, starting at 2AM on June 15th, has no video (either because it was too dark in the cave or the lens was covered), and the audio has someone whispering "Take her, not me." over and over with sounds of water and scraping rocks for two hours and forty-three minutes.
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Carlos has arachnophobia, a deep fear of spiders. He decides to move to a city flat after realzing that there are probably hundreds or thousands of spiders in his garden which will likely try to get into his house in the colder weather. After moving, Carlos adopts an old cat named Major Tom to help get rid of spiders. Carlos' apartment building becomes infested with small, silvery worms which results in an increased spider population in the building. One night in early 2015, Carlos finds a spider in his kitchen that scares him more than other spiders have. He leaves Major Tom alone with the spider for a few hours, but Major Tom doesn't kill the spider. After an hour of panicking, Carlos kills the spider by throwing a mug of coffee at it, then waits until the morning to clean up and finds the spider's remains. Major Tom starts spending most of his time away from the flat. A week later, Carlos sees a spider on his TV's screen, and believes that it's somehow the same spider he encountered in the kitchen. After another hour of panicking, Carlos stomps the spider, killing it and destroying the TV in the process. Carlos burns the shoe he stomped the spider with. Two weeks later, Carlos sees the spider back again, now on the wall over his bed. Carlos remembers the traumatizing event that caused him to develop arachnophobia, a day in 1991 when he, at six years old, accidentally crushed a spider and broke open it's egg sac, causing thousands of underdeveloped spiders to crawl all over him. Carlos believes that the spider haunting him is the same spider from that incident. Carlos kills the spider again with his bare hand before spending hours washing it. Carlos decides to move again, gives Major Tom to a family on the ground floor of the building who he had already starting living with, and decides to visit a doctor as he suspects he may have psychosis.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan thinks that Carlos really is psychotic or something similar and just needs proper treatment to get over his idea of a "ghost spider". Although Martin finds proof that Carlos lived at the places he mentioned in his story, Jonathan decides that they don't know enough to conduct investigations there. Although Tim would have tried to find and reach out to Carlos, Carlos was actually found dead in his flat soon after telling his story. The coroner's report mentions that Carlos asphyxiated, but names the substance that caused it only as "foreign organic material". Jonathan also mentions that Carlos' corpse was found totally covered in spiderwebs.
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Carlos has arachnophobia, a deep fear of spiders. He decides to move to a city flat after realzing that there are probably hundreds or thousands of spiders in his garden which will likely try to get into his house in the colder weather. After moving, Carlos adopts an old cat named Major Tom to help get rid of spiders. Carlos' apartment building becomes infested with small, silvery worms which results in an increased spider population in the building. One night in early 2015, Carlos finds a spider in his kitchen that scares him more than other spiders have. He leaves Major Tom alone with the spider for a few hours, but Major Tom doesn't kill the spider. After an hour of panicking, Carlos kills the spider by throwing a mug of coffee at it, then waits until the morning to clean up and finds the spider's remains. Major Tom starts spending most of his time away from the flat. A week later, Carlos sees a spider on his TV's screen, and believes that it's somehow the same spider he encountered in the kitchen. After another hour of panicking, Carlos stomps the spider, killing it and destroying the TV in the process. Carlos burns the shoe he stomped the spider with. Two weeks later, Carlos sees the spider back again, now on the wall over his bed. Carlos remembers the traumatizing event that caused him to develop arachnophobia, a day in 1991 when he, at six years old, accidentally crushed a spider and broke open it's egg sac, causing thousands of underdeveloped spiders to crawl all over him. Carlos believes that the spider haunting him is the same spider from that incident. Carlos kills the spider again with his bare hand before spending hours washing it. Carlos decides to move again, gives Major Tom to a family on the ground floor of the building who he had already starting living with, and decides to visit a doctor as he suspects he may have psychosis.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan thinks that Carlos really is psychotic or something similar and just needs proper treatment to get over his idea of a "ghost spider". Although Martin finds proof that Carlos lived at the places he mentioned in his story, Jonathan decides that they don't know enough to conduct investigations there. Although Tim would have tried to find and reach out to Carlos, Carlos was actually found dead in his flat soon after telling his story. The coroner's report mentions that Carlos asphyxiated, but names the substance that caused it only as "foreign organic material". Jonathan also mentions that Carlos' corpse was found totally covered in spiderwebs.
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Sebastian is a librarian at the Chiswick Library. In September 1996, a book is checked in that shows up in the library's database as ''Trainspotting'' by Irvine Welsh, but was actually titled ''The Boneturner's Tale'' with no author named. Ruth Weaver, the head librarian, doesn't remember the book despite it having a bookplate with stamps going back many years. Sebastian researches the man who checked in the book, Michael Crew, but all he can find is that he had checked out four other books three weeks earlier, which he had returned alongside ''The Boneturner's Tale''. Jared Hopworth arrives at the library, an old friend of Sebastian's who had become a crook and a bully while Sebastian was at college. After bullying Sebastian, Jared takes ''The Boneturner's Tale'' with a fearful look. On his way home, Sebastian sees a pet rat with a flat back and bent neck outside the Hopworth residence. By late October, Sebastian hasn't seen or heard from Jared. One day, Jared's mother comes to the library with her arm in a sling and wearing a bulky coat. She throws ''The Boneturner's Tale'' at Sebastian and shouts at him to keep himself and his books away from her son. Sebastian is careful to not touch his skin to the book as he picks it up and puts it away, and can't stop thinking of Jared's mother's mangled arm. That night, Sebastian can't sleep as the book concerns him. At 2AM, he decides to go back to the library where he finds that all the books on the cart with ''The Boneturner's Tale'' are bleeding. Sebastian puts on gloves and looks through ''The Boneturner's Tale'' and reads a creepy story about some of Chaucer's pilgrims. Sebastian pulls off the book's lending label and finds another label from a Scandinavian library. Sebastian is interrupted by a tall figure breaking in, resembling a larger, deformed Jared. It demands the book and Sebastian punches it, and feels as though his arm is being pulled into the thing's body by its sharp ribs. Sebastian screams and drops the book, causing the thing to release him and flee with the book. Sebastian notices it has many more limbs than Jared originally had before it disappears. The police arrive, responding to Sebastian's screams. Sebastian never sees Jared or ''The Boneturner's Tale'' again.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Elias interrupts the recording to tell Jonathan that Naomi Herne (13: Alone) has lodged a complaint against him, and warns him against getting on the nerves of her or anyone else associated with the Lukas family since they are patrons of the Institute. Jonathan also tells Elias that Martin is ill. As for the story, Jonathan is displeased that now two books from Jurgen Leitner's collection have been mentioned in stories, which he will report to Elias. Tim and Sasha look through police records and find that the break in of the library was reported, but Jared and ''The Boneturner's Tale'' were never found. Martin tries to track down Sebastian but discovered that he was apparently killed in a hit-and-run on April 17th, 2006, and although there was no blunt trauma injuries recorded, Sebastian's body was badly mangled.
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Sebastian is a librarian at the Chiswick Library. In September 1996, a book is checked in that shows up in the library's database as ''Trainspotting'' by Irvine Welsh, but was actually titled ''The Boneturner's Tale'' with no author named. Ruth Weaver, the head librarian, doesn't remember the book despite it having a bookplate with stamps going back many years. Sebastian researches the man who checked in the book, Michael Crew, but all he can find is that he had checked out four other books three weeks earlier, which he had returned alongside ''The Boneturner's Tale''. Jared Hopworth arrives at the library, an old friend of Sebastian's who had become a crook and a bully while Sebastian was at college. After bullying Sebastian, Jared takes ''The Boneturner's Tale'' with a fearful look. On his way home, Sebastian sees a pet rat with a flat back and bent neck outside the Hopworth residence. By late October, Sebastian hasn't seen or heard from Jared. One day, Jared's mother comes to the library with her arm in a sling and wearing a bulky coat. She throws ''The Boneturner's Tale'' at Sebastian and shouts at him to keep himself and his books away from her son. Sebastian is careful to not touch his skin to the book as he picks it up and puts it away, and can't stop thinking of Jared's mother's mangled arm. That night, Sebastian can't sleep as the book concerns him. At 2AM, he decides to go back to the library where he finds that all the books on the cart with ''The Boneturner's Tale'' are bleeding. Sebastian puts on gloves and looks through ''The Boneturner's Tale'' and reads a creepy story about some of Chaucer's pilgrims. Sebastian pulls off the book's lending label and finds another label from a Scandinavian library. Sebastian is interrupted by a tall figure breaking in, resembling a larger, deformed Jared. It demands the book and Sebastian punches it, and feels as though his arm is being pulled into the thing's body by its sharp ribs. Sebastian screams and drops the book, causing the thing to release him and flee with the book. Sebastian notices it has many more limbs than Jared originally had before it disappears. The police arrive, responding to Sebastian's screams. Sebastian never sees Jared or ''The Boneturner's Tale'' again.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Elias interrupts the recording to tell Jonathan that Naomi Herne (13: Alone) has lodged a complaint against him, and warns him against getting on the nerves of her or anyone else associated with the Lukas family since they are patrons of the Institute. Jonathan also tells Elias that Martin is ill. As for the story, Jonathan is displeased that now two books from Jurgen Leitner's collection have been mentioned in stories, which he will report to Elias. Tim and Sasha look through police records and find that the break in of the library was reported, but Jared and ''The Boneturner's Tale'' were never found. Martin tries to track down Sebastian but discovered that he was apparently killed in a hit-and-run on April 17th, 2006, and although there was no blunt trauma injuries recorded, Sebastian's body was badly mangled.
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Christof buys a ground-floor flat in Welbeck House, Wandsworth. While moving in he sees a strange man smoking on the balcony above his flat and detects a strange smell. Over the first year of living there he gets to know all his neighbors except for this man, who he never sees but occasionally smells, chalking it up to poor hygiene. On July 5th, 2004, banging sounds start to come from the man's apartment, like hammering on the walls and floor, for about an hour at a time. After six months of this, Christof gets a package meant for his upstairs neighbor, whose name the package reveals to be Toby Carlisle. Christof takes the package up and intends to ask about the banging, but he is stunned by the strong smell when Carlisle answers the door, allowing Carlisle to swipe the package and shut the door without a word. Christof notices that Carlilse's hand is thin and pale with yellowed nails, as well as strange stains on the doorframe and floor outside. In 2007, Christof decides to move to Sheffield to be with his dying mother, but is unable to sell the flat due to the smell of the apartment above and a wet stain slowly spreading over the ceiling. Thinking a pipe is leaking, Christof knocks on Carlisle's door but gets no answer. Christof schedules a plumber to come the next week. The plumber tells Christof that it's not the pipes causing the stain, but still investigates. The stained ceiling instantly crumbles under the plumber's touch, causing a thick yellow liquid with white lumps to spill out. The plumber runs away as Christof vomits. Mad at Carlisle, Christof knocks on his apartment door again, which opens as he does so. Christof goes inside and upon turning on the light sees that every surface apart from the windows has had layers of various meats nailed to it, even the lights, which are in various states of decay the deeper they are, with the oldest having liquified. Christof sees Carlisle's rotting corpse in the hall, and can't tell where his eye sockets are due to the lesions on his face. Inside the kitchen, Christof finds a pile of fresher meat that seemed to move on its own before opening many eyes. The next thing Christof knows, the police are there and the pile of meat is gone. Christof tells the police everything but they don't seem to believe about the pile of meat. Christof is eventually successful in selling the flat and moves in with friends in Clapham. Christof also decides to follow a vegetarian diet.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan says that although much of the records they can find are conflicting, they all concede that there was indeed a biohazard incident at the flat on October 22nd, 2007, and that Toby Carlisle's corpse was taken out, with the cause of death reported to be gangrene. Sasha looks through Carlisle's financial records and learns that he owned his flat but only had enough money to pay taxes. Tim investigates local butchers and markets as well as online shops and cannot find any evidence or record of Carlisle purchasing meat, leaving Jonathan concerned as to how he acquired it. Christof is contacted and still stands by his story as a true account of what happened. Jonathan also mentions that Martin is still sick.
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Christof buys a ground-floor flat in Welbeck House, Wandsworth. While moving in he sees a strange man smoking on the balcony above his flat and detects a strange smell. Over the first year of living there he gets to know all his neighbors except for this man, who he never sees but occasionally smells, chalking it up to poor hygiene. On July 5th, 2004, banging sounds start to come from the man's apartment, like hammering on the walls and floor, for about an hour at a time. After six months of this, Christof gets a package meant for his upstairs neighbor, whose name the package reveals to be Toby Carlisle. Christof takes the package up and intends to ask about the banging, but he is stunned by the strong smell when Carlisle answers the door, allowing Carlisle to swipe the package and shut the door without a word. Christof notices that Carlilse's hand is thin and pale with yellowed nails, as well as strange stains on the doorframe and floor outside. In 2007, Christof decides to move to Sheffield to be with his dying mother, but is unable to sell the flat due to the smell of the apartment above and a wet stain slowly spreading over the ceiling. Thinking a pipe is leaking, Christof knocks on Carlisle's door but gets no answer. Christof schedules a plumber to come the next week. The plumber tells Christof that it's not the pipes causing the stain, but still investigates. The stained ceiling instantly crumbles under the plumber's touch, causing a thick yellow liquid with white lumps to spill out. The plumber runs away as Christof vomits. Mad at Carlisle, Christof knocks on his apartment door again, which opens as he does so. Christof goes inside and upon turning on the light sees that every surface apart from the windows has had layers of various meats nailed to it, even the lights, which are in various states of decay the deeper they are, with the oldest having liquified. Christof sees Carlisle's rotting corpse in the hall, and can't tell where his eye sockets are due to the lesions on his face. Inside the kitchen, Christof finds a pile of fresher meat that seemed to move on its own before opening many eyes. The next thing Christof knows, the police are there and the pile of meat is gone. Christof tells the police everything but they don't seem to believe about the pile of meat. Christof is eventually successful in selling the flat and moves in with friends in Clapham. Christof also decides to follow a vegetarian diet.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan says that although much of the records they can find are conflicting, they all concede that there was indeed a biohazard incident at the flat on October 22nd, 2007, and that Toby Carlisle's corpse was taken out, with the cause of death reported to be gangrene. Sasha looks through Carlisle's financial records and learns that he owned his flat but only had enough money to pay taxes. Tim investigates local butchers and markets as well as online shops and cannot find any evidence or record of Carlisle purchasing meat, leaving Jonathan concerned as to how he acquired it. Christof is contacted and still stands by his story as a true account of what happened. Jonathan also mentions that Martin is still sick.
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Edwin is a Catholic priest who claims to be possessed. He was arrested in 2009 for killing and cannibalizing two students, can't tell if his interviewer is even real, and is unable to say "Lord" or "Jesus" and cannot pray, but manages to say "God" albeit with difficulty. From 2005 to 2009, Edwin trains as an exorcist with Father Harrogate. Edwin claims to have done over a hundred exorcisms but admits that many of them probably had no supernatural or demonic activities to begin with. Edwin mentions that he had once been cursed at in Sumerian by an illiterate young man and an old Jamaican man had recited the names of Edwin's childhood pets to him. Edwin learns of a student, Bethany O'Connor, who has requested an exorcism due to losing control of her mind and feelings, though her will remains intact. During one meeting with her, she almost eats a stone before Edwin stops her. Edwin learns that Bethany's problems started when she moved into 89 Bullingdon Road. In her bedroom, Edwin finds a spot where the wallpaper has been torn away to reveal the word 'Mentis' ('mind' in Latin) written on the brickwork. Bethany doesn't appear to be able to see the writing. Edwin gives a small blessing and arranges to return later to perform a full exorcism, getting permission from his friend and superior Father Singh. Edwin gets a call from John Radcliffe Hospital where Bethany was admitted with cuts to the face after attacking one of her roommates with a kitchen knife and falling into a mirror. Edwin goes to visit Bethany and tries to exorcise her, but her only reaction is to say "I'm so sorry. It wants your faith." Bethany suddenly convulses, biting into her tongue, and dies, with the doctors explain as a brain hemorrhage from hitting her head which they failed to diagnose earlier. Edwin gets in trouble with the clergy and Annie Willett, the nurse who called Edwin, is almost fired but keeps her job on the technicality that she had only done what Bethany asked of her. Over the years, Edwin drinks more though he claims to not have become an alcoholic. One day he gets a call from Annie again, telling him that a builder at the house on Hill Top Road had seen things. Annie convinces Edwin to look into the place and possibly exorcise it. At the house, he meets the builder and explains why he's there. The builder allows him to go about before going into the back garden. Edwin begins to bless the place but begins to feel intense heat and smell smoke, although there is not fire. Edwin prays for protection and is answered by something that he knows isn't God. Edwin feels his lips form the words "I am not for you. I am marked." The burning feeling vanished. Edwin tells the builder that he's done all he could, noticing that he's torn down a tree, and leaves.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan says that this isn't the end of Edwin's story, and the rest of it must be in the archive somewhere. He also confirms that the details match up with Ivo Lensik's story (8: Burned Out).
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Edwin is a Catholic priest who claims to be possessed. He was arrested in 2009 for killing and cannibalizing two students, can't tell if his interviewer is even real, and is unable to say "Lord" or "Jesus" and cannot pray, but manages to say "God" albeit with difficulty. From 2005 to 2009, Edwin trains as an exorcist with Father Harrogate. Edwin claims to have done over a hundred exorcisms but admits that many of them probably had no supernatural or demonic activities to begin with. Edwin mentions that he had once been cursed at in Sumerian by an illiterate young man and an old Jamaican man had recited the names of Edwin's childhood pets to him. Edwin learns of a student, Bethany O'Connor, who has requested an exorcism due to losing control of her mind and feelings, though her will remains intact. During one meeting with her, she almost eats a stone before Edwin stops her. Edwin learns that Bethany's problems started when she moved into 89 Bullingdon Road. In her bedroom, Edwin finds a spot where the wallpaper has been torn away to reveal the word 'Mentis' ('mind' in Latin) written on the brickwork. Bethany doesn't appear to be able to see the writing. Edwin gives a small blessing and arranges to return later to perform a full exorcism, getting permission from his friend and superior Father Singh. Edwin gets a call from John Radcliffe Hospital where Bethany was admitted with cuts to the face after attacking one of her roommates with a kitchen knife and falling into a mirror. Edwin goes to visit Bethany and tries to exorcise her, but her only reaction is to say "I'm so sorry. It wants your faith." Bethany suddenly convulses, biting into her tongue, and dies, with the doctors explain as a brain hemorrhage from hitting her head which they failed to diagnose earlier. Edwin gets in trouble with the clergy and Annie Willett, the nurse who called Edwin, is almost fired but keeps her job on the technicality that she had only done what Bethany asked of her. Over the years, Edwin drinks more though he claims to not have become an alcoholic. One day he gets a call from Annie again, telling him that a builder at the house on Hill Top Road had seen things. Annie convinces Edwin to look into the place and possibly exorcise it. At the house, he meets the builder and explains why he's there. The builder allows him to go about before going into the back garden. Edwin begins to bless the place but begins to feel intense heat and smell smoke, although there is not fire. Edwin prays for protection and is answered by something that he knows isn't God. Edwin feels his lips form the words "I am not for you. I am marked." The burning feeling vanished. Edwin tells the builder that he's done all he could, noticing that he's torn down a tree, and leaves.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan says that this isn't the end of Edwin's story, and the rest of it must be in the archive somewhere. He also confirms that the details match up with Ivo Lensik's story (8: Burned Out).
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After leaving the house at Hill Top Road, Edwin fears whatever has come into him from Bethany. He tries to pray but finds his throat constricted when he does so. He tries to read his Bible but finds a verse from Genesis in the gospel of Luke: "Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the Earth. And from thy face shall I be hid. And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth. It shall come to pass that everyone that finding me shall slay me." Other verses are blacked out, and it takes all his willpower to put the Bible in his pocket instead of throwing it away. Edwin talks to Father Singh who requests that they do it in the form of a confessional for spiritual pride. Edwin does so and tells Singh the story of what's happened, but Singh tells him that his "sins were deeper than that" and lists off every sin Edwin ever committed, which he couldn't possibly have known. Edwin also notices that Singh's accent has changed from Indian to RP (English). Edwin runs away, and notices Singh somewhere else in the church. The whole layout of Oxford seems to have transformed, and soon Edwin reaches the Oratory. A man brings Edwin into the Oratory, telling him it's time for mass. Edwin notices an inordinate amount of candles in the church as well as an absence of all the crucifixes and other images of religious figures. There are no people in the chapel. Edwin puts on a pale yellow stole and goes back into the chapel, now full of people with yellowish skin, blank eyes, and wide smiles. As the other man speaks to the people, all Edwin can hear from him is the sound of the church's bell, which unnerves him. Edwin begins the Eucharist and the people start to disappear until the chapel is empty. Edwin goes to get the communion but has to force off the curtain covering it. Upon eating the wafer, Edwin feels a different taste and texture, realizing that he is consuming real human flesh. When Edwin realizes where he is and what he's doing, he decides to stop acting for himself and waits for the police to arrive and take him away. Edwin pleads guilty to every charge brought against him. Whenever the clergy come to visit Edwin in prison, instead of their voices he still hears the bell.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan announces that this second part of Edwin's story had been misplaced in the next box over from it's correct location, meaning that someone had been reading it and put it away hurriedly. Martin is still out and can't be questioned, but Tim and Sasha deny having even seen the record before. Jonathan doesn't think it's likely that Gertrude would have read it. As for the story itself, Jonathan doesn't know what to make of it considering Edwin's gradual loss of his sense of reality. Sasha finds records proving the existence of Bethany O'Connor and her status as an archaeology student at St. Hugh's College, with her personal history and death matching up with Edwin's story, with the exception that during her time as a student she lived in student housing and the person she attacked was housing staff, not a roommate. The house of 89 Bullingdon Road was actually uninhabited at the time, so if Bethany spent time there she didn't do so legally. Edwin's former colleagues are interviewed and corroborate Edwin's mental decline following Bethany's death, and were trying to arrange help for him before his arrest. Regarding the arrest, Edwin was found at 89 Bullingdon Road, wearing a butcher's apron and with two dead students, Christopher Bilham and James Mann, bled to death from multiple cuts as well as their faces being removed. Edwin had partially eaten Mann's face. Edwin remains incarcerated at Wakefield Prison serving two life sentences, and as such futher interviews are impossible. Jonathan mentions some peculiarities from the end of Edwin's story, namely that nothing in his hallucination could correspond to the actions of capturing and killing the students, and that the other man at the church in Edwin's hallucination was unusual in that he seemed to act for himself. Combined with the fact that no tools that could have been used to kill or mutilate the students were at the crime scene, Jonathan suspects that there could have been a second murderer with Edwin who wasn't caught, although it's unlikely for the case to reopen as Edwin fully accepted all charges. Tim finds one other interesting detail, which is that although Edwin wasn't really at the Oratory, there was a delivery to it of one pale yellow stole, which disappeared less than a day later, and one of the deacons remembered that it was delivered by Breekon and Hope Deliveries.
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After leaving the house at Hill Top Road, Edwin fears whatever has come into him from Bethany. He tries to pray but finds his throat constricted when he does so. He tries to read his Bible but finds a verse from Genesis in the gospel of Luke: "Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the Earth. And from thy face shall I be hid. And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth. It shall come to pass that everyone that finding me shall slay me." Other verses are blacked out, and it takes all his willpower to put the Bible in his pocket instead of throwing it away. Edwin talks to Father Singh who requests that they do it in the form of a confessional for spiritual pride. Edwin does so and tells Singh the story of what's happened, but Singh tells him that his "sins were deeper than that" and lists off every sin Edwin ever committed, which he couldn't possibly have known. Edwin also notices that Singh's accent has changed from Indian to RP (English). Edwin runs away, and notices Singh somewhere else in the church. The whole layout of Oxford seems to have transformed, and soon Edwin reaches the Oratory. A man brings Edwin into the Oratory, telling him it's time for mass. Edwin notices an inordinate amount of candles in the church as well as an absence of all the crucifixes and other images of religious figures. There are no people in the chapel. Edwin puts on a pale yellow stole and goes back into the chapel, now full of people with yellowish skin, blank eyes, and wide smiles. As the other man speaks to the people, all Edwin can hear from him is the sound of the church's bell, which unnerves him. Edwin begins the Eucharist and the people start to disappear until the chapel is empty. Edwin goes to get the communion but has to force off the curtain covering it. Upon eating the wafer, Edwin feels a different taste and texture, realizing that he is consuming real human flesh. When Edwin realizes where he is and what he's doing, he decides to stop acting for himself and waits for the police to arrive and take him away. Edwin pleads guilty to every charge brought against him. Whenever the clergy come to visit Edwin in prison, instead of their voices he still hears the bell.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan announces that this second part of Edwin's story had been misplaced in the next box over from it's correct location, meaning that someone had been reading it and put it away hurriedly. Martin is still out and can't be questioned, but Tim and Sasha deny having even seen the record before. Jonathan doesn't think it's likely that Gertrude would have read it. As for the story itself, Jonathan doesn't know what to make of it considering Edwin's gradual loss of his sense of reality. Sasha finds records proving the existence of Bethany O'Connor and her status as an archaeology student at St. Hugh's College, with her personal history and death matching up with Edwin's story, with the exception that during her time as a student she lived in student housing and the person she attacked was housing staff, not a roommate. The house of 89 Bullingdon Road was actually uninhabited at the time, so if Bethany spent time there she didn't do so legally. Edwin's former colleagues are interviewed and corroborate Edwin's mental decline following Bethany's death, and were trying to arrange help for him before his arrest. Regarding the arrest, Edwin was found at 89 Bullingdon Road, wearing a butcher's apron and with two dead students, Christopher Bilham and James Mann, bled to death from multiple cuts as well as their faces being removed. Edwin had partially eaten Mann's face. Edwin remains incarcerated at Wakefield Prison serving two life sentences, and as such futher interviews are impossible. Jonathan mentions some peculiarities from the end of Edwin's story, namely that nothing in his hallucination could correspond to the actions of capturing and killing the students, and that the other man at the church in Edwin's hallucination was unusual in that he seemed to act for himself. Combined with the fact that no tools that could have been used to kill or mutilate the students were at the crime scene, Jonathan suspects that there could have been a second murderer with Edwin who wasn't caught, although it's unlikely for the case to reopen as Edwin fully accepted all charges. Tim finds one other interesting detail, which is that although Edwin wasn't really at the Oratory, there was a delivery to it of one pale yellow stole, which disappeared less than a day later, and one of the deacons remembered that it was delivered by Breekon and Hope Deliveries.
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Moira's son Robert was always adventurous and gets a job as a skydiving instructor with a company called Open Skydiving after leaving university. Moira doesn't see much of her son, but he unexpectedly comes to her house in June 2002, looking like a mess and telling her that he quit his job. After Moira gets him cleaned up and calmed, he tells her that he had been assisting with a skydive of a man named Simon, who was eighty-five years old and doing the dive for charity. Harriet Fairchild, who had been assigned to Simon, had asked Robert to come with them. Just before Simon and Harriet jumped from the plane, Simon said something like "enjoy sky blue" to Robert. Robert started to feel dizzy but shook it off and jumped. Robert soon saw that there was no ground, just endless blue sky. He fell for what seemed like hours. At some point he closed his eyes and upon reopening saw the ground and had a safe landing. Robert met Harriet, who told him that Simon and his team had already left and that he had been falling for fifteen minutes. In shock, Robert resigned immediately and went straight to see his mother. The next day, Moira and Robert climb a nearby hill for a picnic, but Robert suddenly goes into a panic and pushes Moira away before running to the top of the hill. The only way Moira can describe what happens next is that "the sky ate him", not that he flew away or something picked him up, but that the sky wrapped around and ate Robert.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha finds that Open Skydiving never existed as a corporate entity, although the name "Open Skydiving" and "Open Skydiving School" were mentioned in a couple of articles from late 2000, but since they weren't an officially licensed business either Robert lied to Moira about his work, or Robert was the one being lied to. Tim finds an incident report from Doncaster in June 2002, in which a man by the name of Joseph Puce heard something fall in a nearby field and found an undeployed parachute embedded in the ground, although there was no trace of a user or any identifying labels. Puce had confirmed that there were no planes or skydiving around his home. Police reports showed that Moira attempted to file a missing person report for Robert on June 7th, 2002, but couldn't as she didn't know much about his friends or residences. Jonathan suspects that Robert may not have existed at all given that he's not in any records from 1998 to 2002. Moira declines an offer for another interview, saying that she doesn't want to revisit it. Jonathan also mentions that the names of Harriet Fairchild and Simon remind him of the pseudonym "Simon Fairchild", but before he can elaborate, Martin bursts into the room with something strange.
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Moira's son Robert was always adventurous and gets a job as a skydiving instructor with a company called Open Skydiving after leaving university. Moira doesn't see much of her son, but he unexpectedly comes to her house in June 2002, looking like a mess and telling her that he quit his job. After Moira gets him cleaned up and calmed, he tells her that he had been assisting with a skydive of a man named Simon, who was eighty-five years old and doing the dive for charity. Harriet Fairchild, who had been assigned to Simon, had asked Robert to come with them. Just before Simon and Harriet jumped from the plane, Simon said something like "enjoy sky blue" to Robert. Robert started to feel dizzy but shook it off and jumped. Robert soon saw that there was no ground, just endless blue sky. He fell for what seemed like hours. At some point he closed his eyes and upon reopening saw the ground and had a safe landing. Robert met Harriet, who told him that Simon and his team had already left and that he had been falling for fifteen minutes. In shock, Robert resigned immediately and went straight to see his mother. The next day, Moira and Robert climb a nearby hill for a picnic, but Robert suddenly goes into a panic and pushes Moira away before running to the top of the hill. The only way Moira can describe what happens next is that "the sky ate him", not that he flew away or something picked him up, but that the sky wrapped around and ate Robert.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha finds that Open Skydiving never existed as a corporate entity, although the name "Open Skydiving" and "Open Skydiving School" were mentioned in a couple of articles from late 2000, but since they weren't an officially licensed business either Robert lied to Moira about his work, or Robert was the one being lied to. Tim finds an incident report from Doncaster in June 2002, in which a man by the name of Joseph Puce heard something fall in a nearby field and found an undeployed parachute embedded in the ground, although there was no trace of a user or any identifying labels. Puce had confirmed that there were no planes or skydiving around his home. Police reports showed that Moira attempted to file a missing person report for Robert on June 7th, 2002, but couldn't as she didn't know much about his friends or residences. Jonathan suspects that Robert may not have existed at all given that he's not in any records from 1998 to 2002. Moira declines an offer for another interview, saying that she doesn't want to revisit it. Jonathan also mentions that the names of Harriet Fairchild and Simon remind him of the pseudonym "Simon Fairchild", but before he can elaborate, Martin bursts into the room with something strange.
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Martin goes to investigate the flat of Carlos Vittery following the digitalization of case #0150409 (16: Arachnophobia). Receiving no answer at the buzzers, he snoops around and finds an open basement window, beside which is a small silver worm with a black head. It suddenly moves towards Martin and he squashes it underfoot. Entering the basement, Martin finds it to have a musty smell and and thinks he sees his shadow move. Martin goes up to the building proper and knocks on the door formerly occupied by Vittery, but its current occupant doesn't speak English. She points Martin to the building's owner, Yassir Kundi, who tells Martin that Carlos didn't talk to many people while he lived there and his old cat is now owned by the Sanderson couple. When Martin is going home after dark, he decides to go back to the apartment building since he remembered seeeing lots of spiderwebs in the basement. Entering through the basement window again, he finds that the cobwebs aren't fresh enough to be connected to the Vittery case, but comes across a woman facing away from him with long black hair and an overcoat. She coughs up a silver worm which prompts Martin to scream out loud, alerting the woman who turns around and smiles at him with black and broken teeth. She takes off her overcoat and Martin sees that her skin is full of holes that hundreds of silver worms are crawling through, and they spill out as she begins to walk toward Martin. Martin tries to photograph her with his phone but drops it when a worm jumps at him. Martin runs away home and collapses into bed from exhaustion. The next morning or the morning after, he hears a knock at the door but doesn't answer, thinking it could be the woman. Martin then sees a silver worm crawl in under the door and he kills it before hurriedly blocking up any space a worm could get through. Martin stays home for the next two weeks, rationing his food and hardly sleeping, unable to contact anyone due to the loss of his phone and the power being out. He remembers hearing Jonathan mentioning Jane Prentiss in his digitalization of case #0140912 (6: Squirm), and thinks that this woman could be her. He remembers that Prentiss professed to be a witch and believed that an unknown parasite had infected her. The knocking continues for the two weeks, as well as the musty smell Martin detected in the basement. One day the knocking and smell ceases, and after making sure that Prentiss was gone, Martin rushes to the Institute to inform Jonathan.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan decides to have Martin stay in a sealed room at the Institute and resolves to request an increase in security, then tells Martin that he's been getting texts from Martin's phone during the last two weeks saying he was ill and may have caught a parasite. That moment, Jonathan gets another text from Martin's phone: "Keep him, we have had our fun. He will want to see it when the Archivist's crimson fate arrives". Jonathan restates his determination to have security increased and decides to tell Tim and Sasha about the happenings.
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Martin goes to investigate the flat of Carlos Vittery following the digitalization of case #0150409 (16: Arachnophobia). Receiving no answer at the buzzers, he snoops around and finds an open basement window, beside which is a small silver worm with a black head. It suddenly moves towards Martin and he squashes it underfoot. Entering the basement, Martin finds it to have a musty smell and and thinks he sees his shadow move. Martin goes up to the building proper and knocks on the door formerly occupied by Vittery, but its current occupant doesn't speak English. She points Martin to the building's owner, Yassir Kundi, who tells Martin that Carlos didn't talk to many people while he lived there and his old cat is now owned by the Sanderson couple. When Martin is going home after dark, he decides to go back to the apartment building since he remembered seeeing lots of spiderwebs in the basement. Entering through the basement window again, he finds that the cobwebs aren't fresh enough to be connected to the Vittery case, but comes across a woman facing away from him with long black hair and an overcoat. She coughs up a silver worm which prompts Martin to scream out loud, alerting the woman who turns around and smiles at him with black and broken teeth. She takes off her overcoat and Martin sees that her skin is full of holes that hundreds of silver worms are crawling through, and they spill out as she begins to walk toward Martin. Martin tries to photograph her with his phone but drops it when a worm jumps at him. Martin runs away home and collapses into bed from exhaustion. The next morning or the morning after, he hears a knock at the door but doesn't answer, thinking it could be the woman. Martin then sees a silver worm crawl in under the door and he kills it before hurriedly blocking up any space a worm could get through. Martin stays home for the next two weeks, rationing his food and hardly sleeping, unable to contact anyone due to the loss of his phone and the power being out. He remembers hearing Jonathan mentioning Jane Prentiss in his digitalization of case #0140912 (6: Squirm), and thinks that this woman could be her. He remembers that Prentiss professed to be a witch and believed that an unknown parasite had infected her. The knocking continues for the two weeks, as well as the musty smell Martin detected in the basement. One day the knocking and smell ceases, and after making sure that Prentiss was gone, Martin rushes to the Institute to inform Jonathan.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan decides to have Martin stay in a sealed room at the Institute and resolves to request an increase in security, then tells Martin that he's been getting texts from Martin's phone during the last two weeks saying he was ill and may have caught a parasite. That moment, Jonathan gets another text from Martin's phone: "Keep him, we have had our fun. He will want to see it when the Archivist's crimson fate arrives". Jonathan restates his determination to have security increased and decides to tell Tim and Sasha about the happenings.
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Albrecht writes to his friend, Jonah Magnus, to tell him this story. In the winter of 1815, Albrecht and his wife Clara decide to go look after their nephew Wilhelm after he fell ill. Wilhelm lives in the family estate in the Schwartzwald (Black Forest) as he had inherited from his late father, Albrecht's brother Hendrik, at the age of fourteen. Albrecht and Clara decide to spend the winter with Wilhelm after arriving. Albrecht likes to go out for long walks, and one day comes across an old graveyard with a mausoleum inscribed with the name "Johann von Württemberg". Albrecht doesn't recognize the name and thinks that it's an odd place for a graveyard since the nearest town is six miles away. Albrecht brings up his discovery over dinner, and Wilhelm says that he hadn't known of the graveyard or of Johann von Württemberg. The next day, Albrecht goes back to the graveyard to investigate and meets a man with a frock coat and wide brimmed hat, who asks Albrecht if he intends to explore the mausoleum. Albrecht confirms this, asking the man what he has to fear from the dead. The man answers that there's nothing at all to fear from the dead, before disappearing when Albrecht looks away. Albrecht enters the mausoleum and finds a hidden staircase leading to a chamber with old and damp books on marble shelves, each engraved with a small eye. Albrecht finds a coin and book on the floor. The coin has an image of a long-haired man with the letters "JW" and number 1279 on one side, and the words "Für die Stille" ("for the silence" in German) on the other. Albrecht opens the book but finds it to be written in what he believes to be Arabic. Back at the estate that evening, a servant named Hilda or Helga asks Albrecht if he went back to the graveyard. When he confirms, she tells him a story that she had heard from Tobias Kohler, an eighty-year-old man from Schramberg. As a child, Tobias would play a game with his friends called "Johann's Steps", in which you would sneak down the mausoleum stairs until you were seen, then run back, though Tobias wouldn't say who or what was supposed to see you. The game was ended when the mother of one of Tobias' friends, Hans Winkler, tried to stop Hans from going down and ran after him down the stairs. There was screaming, and the children ran back to town where the local priest rallied six other men to go to the mausoleum. They never spoke about what they found, and Hans went to live with another family, the Beckers. Tobias also mentioned that his uncle called Johann von Württemberg "Ulrich's bastard", which based on the coin's date of 1279 could refer to either Ulrich I or Ulrich II. A week before Albrecht and Clara mean to return home, Albrecht goes on a walk and is jumped by the man from the cemetery, now without his hat, which allows Albrecht to see his hairless head and eyeless sockets. The man reaches toward Albrecht before looking suddenly at something and disappearing. Albrecht and Clara leave Schwartzwald the next morning, and Albrecht realizes that he lost the coin.
!!Subsequent Investigation
During the story, Martin interrupts as he didn't realize Jonathan had come in early, and the quick talk reveals that it's been about a week since he started staying in the Institute, with no sign of Jane Prentiss. The only mention of Johann von Württemberg that Jonathan can find is in ''Cradle of Germany - Württemberg through the Centuries'' by Jan Moira, which details a rumor that Court Ulrich I of Württemberg had a second son out of wedlock in 1255. 1279 was the year that Ulrich II died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Eberhard I. It's also found in ''Grim Tales'' by H. T. Moncreef that Wilhelm was suspected for the murder of Rudolf Ziegler, but was acquitted when doctors decided that the man's wounds were too severe for a human to have done it, and so ruled it an animal attack rather than a murder. Jonathan also researches Wilhelm's genealogy, which shows that he eventually married and had children, and some of his descendants moved to England in 1908, and one daughter, Elsa, married Michael Keay in 1920 and they had a daughter, Mary Keay, in 1924.
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Albrecht writes to his friend, Jonah Magnus, to tell him this story. In the winter of 1815, Albrecht and his wife Clara decide to go look after their nephew Wilhelm after he fell ill. Wilhelm lives in the family estate in the Schwartzwald (Black Forest) as he had inherited from his late father, Albrecht's brother Hendrik, at the age of fourteen. Albrecht and Clara decide to spend the winter with Wilhelm after arriving. Albrecht likes to go out for long walks, and one day comes across an old graveyard with a mausoleum inscribed with the name "Johann von Württemberg". Albrecht doesn't recognize the name and thinks that it's an odd place for a graveyard since the nearest town is six miles away. Albrecht brings up his discovery over dinner, and Wilhelm says that he hadn't known of the graveyard or of Johann von Württemberg. The next day, Albrecht goes back to the graveyard to investigate and meets a man with a frock coat and wide brimmed hat, who asks Albrecht if he intends to explore the mausoleum. Albrecht confirms this, asking the man what he has to fear from the dead. The man answers that there's nothing at all to fear from the dead, before disappearing when Albrecht looks away. Albrecht enters the mausoleum and finds a hidden staircase leading to a chamber with old and damp books on marble shelves, each engraved with a small eye. Albrecht finds a coin and book on the floor. The coin has an image of a long-haired man with the letters "JW" and number 1279 on one side, and the words "Für die Stille" ("for the silence" in German) on the other. Albrecht opens the book but finds it to be written in what he believes to be Arabic. Back at the estate that evening, a servant named Hilda or Helga asks Albrecht if he went back to the graveyard. When he confirms, she tells him a story that she had heard from Tobias Kohler, an eighty-year-old man from Schramberg. As a child, Tobias would play a game with his friends called "Johann's Steps", in which you would sneak down the mausoleum stairs until you were seen, then run back, though Tobias wouldn't say who or what was supposed to see you. The game was ended when the mother of one of Tobias' friends, Hans Winkler, tried to stop Hans from going down and ran after him down the stairs. There was screaming, and the children ran back to town where the local priest rallied six other men to go to the mausoleum. They never spoke about what they found, and Hans went to live with another family, the Beckers. Tobias also mentioned that his uncle called Johann von Württemberg "Ulrich's bastard", which based on the coin's date of 1279 could refer to either Ulrich I or Ulrich II. A week before Albrecht and Clara mean to return home, Albrecht goes on a walk and is jumped by the man from the cemetery, now without his hat, which allows Albrecht to see his hairless head and eyeless sockets. The man reaches toward Albrecht before looking suddenly at something and disappearing. Albrecht and Clara leave Schwartzwald the next morning, and Albrecht realizes that he lost the coin.
!!Subsequent Investigation
During the story, Martin interrupts as he didn't realize Jonathan had come in early, and the quick talk reveals that it's been about a week since he started staying in the Institute, with no sign of Jane Prentiss. The only mention of Johann von Württemberg that Jonathan can find is in ''Cradle of Germany - Württemberg through the Centuries'' by Jan Moira, which details a rumor that Court Ulrich I of Württemberg had a second son out of wedlock in 1255. 1279 was the year that Ulrich II died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Eberhard I. It's also found in ''Grim Tales'' by H. T. Moncreef that Wilhelm was suspected for the murder of Rudolf Ziegler, but was acquitted when doctors decided that the man's wounds were too severe for a human to have done it, and so ruled it an animal attack rather than a murder. Jonathan also researches Wilhelm's genealogy, which shows that he eventually married and had children, and some of his descendants moved to England in 1908, and one daughter, Elsa, married Michael Keay in 1920 and they had a daughter, Mary Keay, in 1924.
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Leanne's grandfather, a carnie named Nikolai, dies and she inherits his house. Leanne finds that none of the keys she received open the padlock sealing the attic door, which had always been so, and she decides to break the lock with bolt cutters to see what's inside the attic. She finds a bright red calliope organ and a steamer trunk containing twenty-three dolls, all but one with their jaws torn away. The one undamaged doll is a clown doll with a pointed hat and painted eyes and a red smile. The calliope has a plague reading "The Calliophone" and on the keyboard cover are carved the words "Be still, for there is strange music". Leanne plays a circus song that she had learned from Nikolai, increasing speed until misplaying a note. Leanne sees that the steamer trunk is open even though she had closed it, with the clown doll on top of the pile of dolls. Later, Leanne discovers that a calliope has to have it's blower set up to be playable, which she hadn't done. Leanne brings her partner, Josh, to the attic where he is creeped out by the dolls and insists that they leave after Leanne begins to play the calliope again. A few weeks later Leanne and Josh break up, shortly before which he tells her that he can still hear the calliope music which seems to gradually be getting closer. One day when Leanne is clearing out items from the attic, she sees the streamer trunk opened and the clown doll out and reaching for another doll which bears an uncanny resemblance to Josh. Leanne puts the dolls in the trunk and uses a padlock to keep it shut. The next week, Leanne discovers that the house has been broken into, and the calliope and trunk had been taken. In the police report provided by Leanne, a neighbor testifies that she saw two mean taking the calliope out piece by piece, but she had assumed that they were professionals hired by Leanne. The calliope is never found, and four days later Josh is discovered dead in his bedroom, his throat crushed and his jaw torn away, which is never recovered. Leanne promises that she wasn't involved in Josh's death.
!!Subsequent Investigation
The police report mentioned in the story is still possessed by the archives, proving that Leanne did indeed own the calliope and the steamer trunk before their theft. Evidence found in the police investigation into Josh's death indicates that a thick woolen rope was used to crush his throat, but there was no signs of a struggle or even a break-in, and no DNA found aside from Josh's own. No arrest was made. Tim mentions to Jonathan that some of the story's elements remind him of articles he's read about travelling circuses in the early 20th century, and after some research Jonathan finds a photograph in ''Freaks and Followers: Circuses in the 1940s'' by Gregory Petry of a group of carnies: a contortionist, a fire-eater, two strongmen, a ringmaster, and an organist at a calliope. The photograph's details reveal it to have been taken in Minsk, Russia in 1948. The details also identift the ringmaster as Gregor Osinov and the organist as Nikolai Denikin, with the other performers remaining unidentified. The circus' name was the Circus of the Other, which Jonathan finds familiar but can figure out where from. Leanne is unable to do another interview as she had moved to Southeast Asia in 2014. Jonathan reveals that the Institute has in its storage a calliope that quite possibly is the very same one from the story, indicated by its bright red color and the inscription on the keyboard cover: "Be still, for there is strange music". Jonathan only knows that the calliope came into the possession of the Institute sometime in 2007, and Elias had said that the record surrounding the event was probably in the archive.
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Mark doesn't believe in the supernatural and has only come to tell his story because his girlfriend, Katherine, told him to. Kathy graduates from university in 2014 and moves in with her friend Natalie Ennis, who is very religious. Mark doesn't get along with Natalie since they have nothing in common. In late October of 2014, Natalie's mother dies and as a result Natalie loses her faith for a few months until she finds a new congregation, with whom she spends most of her time, including nights. On nights she is home, she sings in a foreign language all night. Kathy starts to hear things move in Natalie's room when Natalie isn't home. The lightbulbs start going out, and Mark discovers that they're not broken, but rather Natalie had been slightly unscrewing them so they wouldn't turn on. One evening, Kathy comes to Mark's home in a panic, and tells her that Natalie had given her a dinner of what seemed to be overcooked spinach, before they both expressed a desire to move out. Natalie told her that she was going to a new home and family, who had been waiting for 300 years and would soon be collected by Mr. Pitch, and invited Natalie to join her. Realizing that Natalie was talking about her church, Kathy declined saying that she wasn't interested in Christianity, but Natalie replied "No, but you're a natural for Them. You're worshipping as we speak." This scared Kathy enough to run to Mark. Mark decides to tell Natalie to back off, and upon entering her bedroom finds that the furniture, wallpaper, and carpets had all been moved over the window. Mark finds a piece of paper with the name "Hither Green Dissenters" and a symbol resembling a closed eye. Mark looks up the name and finds a Hither Green Chapel in a graveyard in Lewisham. Mark goes to the chapel and finds it to be abandoned, with boarded windows but the doors open. Looking inside, Mark sees broken pews and other debris. Mark's flashlight dies and he loses the batteries when he takes them out to adjust them. Feeling around in the darkness for the batteries, Mark notices the floor seems smooth and clean, without the debris he had seen before. Mark hears singing from many voices, seeming to say "Ny-Ålesund". Mark tries to feel for a wall but despite the chapel's small size he feels around for a minute before finding a rusted metal grate. Feeling over it, Mark feels leathery fingers grab him, causing him to leap backwards. Mark feels his phone in his pocket, having forgotten he had it, and turns on its light as the singing becomes louder, finding himself back in the same wrecked chapel. Mark files a missing person report for Natalie.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha finds confirmation of the missing person report, and that Mark had filed it on March 11th, 2015. No trace of her or her congregation were found at the chapel. Mark and Kathy are contacted but haven't heard from Natalie at all since Mark gave his report. The eye symbol and other descriptions of Natalie's congregation match up with elements from Case 0020312 (9: A Father's Love), leading Jonathan to sus[ect that the People's Church of the Divine Host may still be active. Tim finds that the sung words "Ny-Ålesund" are also the name of a Norweigian town which is the northenmost human settlement in the world, discounting research outposts, being at latitude North 78°55′30″, though it's unclear what it could have to do with Mark's story. Martin finds a police report from May 15th, 2015, about a month after Mark gave his report, where people living near the chapel reported screaming from inside it at the middle of the night, but nothing was found. Jonathan finds this interesting as May 15th, 2015, was the day Gertrude died.
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Mark doesn't believe in the supernatural and has only come to tell his story because his girlfriend, Katherine, told him to. Kathy graduates from university in 2014 and moves in with her friend Natalie Ennis, who is very religious. Mark doesn't get along with Natalie since they have nothing in common. In late October of 2014, Natalie's mother dies and as a result Natalie loses her faith for a few months until she finds a new congregation, with whom she spends most of her time, including nights. On nights she is home, she sings in a foreign language all night. Kathy starts to hear things move in Natalie's room when Natalie isn't home. The lightbulbs start going out, and Mark discovers that they're not broken, but rather Natalie had been slightly unscrewing them so they wouldn't turn on. One evening, Kathy comes to Mark's home in a panic, and tells her that Natalie had given her a dinner of what seemed to be overcooked spinach, before they both expressed a desire to move out. Natalie told her that she was going to a new home and family, who had been waiting for 300 years and would soon be collected by Mr. Pitch, and invited Natalie to join her. Realizing that Natalie was talking about her church, Kathy declined saying that she wasn't interested in Christianity, but Natalie replied "No, but you're a natural for Them. You're worshipping as we speak." This scared Kathy enough to run to Mark. Mark decides to tell Natalie to back off, and upon entering her bedroom finds that the furniture, wallpaper, and carpets had all been moved over the window. Mark finds a piece of paper with the name "Hither Green Dissenters" and a symbol resembling a closed eye. Mark looks up the name and finds a Hither Green Chapel in a graveyard in Lewisham. Mark goes to the chapel and finds it to be abandoned, with boarded windows but the doors open. Looking inside, Mark sees broken pews and other debris. Mark's flashlight dies and he loses the batteries when he takes them out to adjust them. Feeling around in the darkness for the batteries, Mark notices the floor seems smooth and clean, without the debris he had seen before. Mark hears singing from many voices, seeming to say "Ny-Ålesund". Mark tries to feel for a wall but despite the chapel's small size he feels around for a minute before finding a rusted metal grate. Feeling over it, Mark feels leathery fingers grab him, causing him to leap backwards. Mark feels his phone in his pocket, having forgotten he had it, and turns on its light as the singing becomes louder, finding himself back in the same wrecked chapel. Mark files a missing person report for Natalie.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Sasha finds confirmation of the missing person report, and that Mark had filed it on March 11th, 2015. No trace of her or her congregation were found at the chapel. Mark and Kathy are contacted but haven't heard from Natalie at all since Mark gave his report. The eye symbol and other descriptions of Natalie's congregation match up with elements from Case 0020312 (9: A Father's Love), leading Jonathan to sus[ect that the People's Church of the Divine Host may still be active. Tim finds that the sung words "Ny-Ålesund" are also the name of a Norweigian town which is the northenmost human settlement in the world, discounting research outposts, being at latitude North 78°55′30″, though it's unclear what it could have to do with Mark's story. Martin finds a police report from May 15th, 2015, about a month after Mark gave his report, where people living near the chapel reported screaming from inside it at the middle of the night, but nothing was found. Jonathan finds this interesting as May 15th, 2015, was the day Gertrude died.
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Sasha doubts the threat level of Jane Prentiss due to Martin surviving his encounter with her, though she knows that Prentiss is haunting the Institute as her silver worms frequently appear outside, which Sasha kills when she sees them. When leaving for work one day, Sasha looks through a distorted glass window and sees a figure that looks lanky and boneless with large hands, though through a regular window she sees them as a man with long blond hair. Later on her trip to work she sees the man in a café but decides to not talk to him. After work she notices him still in the café despite it usually being closed by then, and he motions for her to come inside and sit with him. She does so and asks what he is. He tells her that it doesn't matter but she may call him Michael, which Sasha doubts is his real name since she doesn't think he's a human. Sasha asks what he wants, and he says he wants to help, though he doesn't specify what he wants to help with. She asks if it's about Prentiss, and he laughs and tells her that she doesn't really know what's going on. Michael tells Sasha he wants to be friends and holds her hand, and she notes it feels heavier than it looks and sharp. Sasha leaves as Michael tells her that she should meet him at Hanwell Cemetery if she wants to save her coworkers at the Institute, calling them by name. The next day after work, Sasha decides to go to the cemetery where Michael is waiting for her. Michael takes Sasha to an abandoned pub, and inside she finds a man covered in silver worms, and realizes that the floor is covered in them too. Sasha gasps, alerting the worms which dart toward her. Sasha grabs a nearby fire extinguisher and sprays the worms, which are instantly killed by the carbon dioxide gas. Sasha sprays the infested man with the extinguisher as well, killing the worms inside him. After the body stops moving, Sasha searches it and finds the man's driver's license, identifying him as Timothy Hodge(6: Squirm). Michael comes to Sasha's side and extracts a worm from her shoulder, which she hadn't noticed begin to burrow. The next thing Sasha knows, Michael and Hodge's corpse have both vanished, and she hurries back to the Institute.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Believing Sasha to be level-headed and credible, Jonathan takes her story at face value. He wonders how Hodge and Harriet Lee were affected differently by the infestation, and notes that while most supernatural entities and forces described in the stories were of a malevolent nature, Michael's desire to befriend and help Sasha contrasted greatly. Jonathan gives Sasha a few days off work and requests that Elias purchase more fire extinguishers for the Institute.
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Sasha doubts the threat level of Jane Prentiss due to Martin surviving his encounter with her, though she knows that Prentiss is haunting the Institute as her silver worms frequently appear outside, which Sasha kills when she sees them. When leaving for work one day, Sasha looks through a distorted glass window and sees a figure that looks lanky and boneless with large hands, though through a regular window she sees them as a man with long blond hair. Later on her trip to work she sees the man in a café but decides to not talk to him. After work she notices him still in the café despite it usually being closed by then, and he motions for her to come inside and sit with him. She does so and asks what he is. He tells her that it doesn't matter but she may call him Michael, which Sasha doubts is his real name since she doesn't think he's a human. Sasha asks what he wants, and he says he wants to help, though he doesn't specify what he wants to help with. She asks if it's about Prentiss, and he laughs and tells her that she doesn't really know what's going on. Michael tells Sasha he wants to be friends and holds her hand, and she notes it feels heavier than it looks and sharp. Sasha leaves as Michael tells her that she should meet him at Hanwell Cemetery if she wants to save her coworkers at the Institute, calling them by name. The next day after work, Sasha decides to go to the cemetery where Michael is waiting for her. Michael takes Sasha to an abandoned pub, and inside she finds a man covered in silver worms, and realizes that the floor is covered in them too. Sasha gasps, alerting the worms which dart toward her. Sasha grabs a nearby fire extinguisher and sprays the worms, which are instantly killed by the carbon dioxide gas. Sasha sprays the infested man with the extinguisher as well, killing the worms inside him. After the body stops moving, Sasha searches it and finds the man's driver's license, identifying him as Timothy Hodge(6: Squirm). Michael comes to Sasha's side and extracts a worm from her shoulder, which she hadn't noticed begin to burrow. The next thing Sasha knows, Michael and Hodge's corpse have both vanished, and she hurries back to the Institute.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Believing Sasha to be level-headed and credible, Jonathan takes her story at face value. He wonders how Hodge and Harriet Lee were affected differently by the infestation, and notes that while most supernatural entities and forces described in the stories were of a malevolent nature, Michael's desire to befriend and help Sasha contrasted greatly. Jonathan gives Sasha a few days off work and requests that Elias purchase more fire extinguishers for the Institute.
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Paul lives alone in his house as his son Marcus moved away to live with his fiancée and Paul's wife, Diane, died in May 2003. One night, Paul wakes up to hear a prescence at the top of the staircase. Thinking it could be a burglar, he decides to let them go about their crime and call the police once they've left, but rather than the prescence moving around the house, he hears it slowly approach his bedroom door and soon sees the doorknob start to turn. Paul runs to the door and holds it shut, and though his hands become slick with what he thinks is sweat, he manages to keep the door shut until the prescence leaves. Paul calls the police, but not before noticing that his hands are covered not with sweat but with blood. The police can't find any evidence of an intruder. The following day, Paul scours the house for the key to the lock on his bedroom door. In the night the presence returns and tries to open the door, but the lock holds fast despite the presence becoming increasingly violent in its attempt to enter. Paul calls the police again, but the presence is gone by the time they arrive and they imply that they would put him in a nursing home if he kept calling. For the next month's worth of nights, the prescence tries to enter Paul's bedroom but can't break the lock, and the only nights it doesn't come are those when Paul has Marcus stay over to try to catch it. Paul sets up a camera to try to record the prescence but it doesn't appear on the recording, even at the time when Paul heard it outside his door. Paul sees for a few frames what appears to be a screaming face in the shadows, but it scares him so badly he erases the footage. Paul admits that he has no proof that the presence really exists, and even Marcus doesn't believe it, but he refuses to abandon his home.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan wants to believe the story, having sympathy for the elderly Paul, but he thinks that it's more likely that Paul was developing dementia in his old age. Jonathan notes that Paul had died of a stroke two months after telling his story. Sasha finds police records of Paul's reports to the police. Martin is able to contact Marcus, but he declines an interview as he had already given a statement. Jonathan goes over records of the Institute's initial investigation, and while their researcher decided to stay a night at Paul's home, she found no evidence of the supernatural. Jonathan notices that in the photographs she took, there appeared to be no lock on the bedroom door.
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Paul lives alone in his house as his son Marcus moved away to live with his fiancée and Paul's wife, Diane, died in May 2003. One night, Paul wakes up to hear a prescence at the top of the staircase. Thinking it could be a burglar, he decides to let them go about their crime and call the police once they've left, but rather than the prescence moving around the house, he hears it slowly approach his bedroom door and soon sees the doorknob start to turn. Paul runs to the door and holds it shut, and though his hands become slick with what he thinks is sweat, he manages to keep the door shut until the prescence leaves. Paul calls the police, but not before noticing that his hands are covered not with sweat but with blood. The police can't find any evidence of an intruder. The following day, Paul scours the house for the key to the lock on his bedroom door. In the night the presence returns and tries to open the door, but the lock holds fast despite the presence becoming increasingly violent in its attempt to enter. Paul calls the police again, but the presence is gone by the time they arrive and they imply that they would put him in a nursing home if he kept calling. For the next month's worth of nights, the prescence tries to enter Paul's bedroom but can't break the lock, and the only nights it doesn't come are those when Paul has Marcus stay over to try to catch it. Paul sets up a camera to try to record the prescence but it doesn't appear on the recording, even at the time when Paul heard it outside his door. Paul sees for a few frames what appears to be a screaming face in the shadows, but it scares him so badly he erases the footage. Paul admits that he has no proof that the presence really exists, and even Marcus doesn't believe it, but he refuses to abandon his home.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan wants to believe the story, having sympathy for the elderly Paul, but he thinks that it's more likely that Paul was developing dementia in his old age. Jonathan notes that Paul had died of a stroke two months after telling his story. Sasha finds police records of Paul's reports to the police. Martin is able to contact Marcus, but he declines an interview as he had already given a statement. Jonathan goes over records of the Institute's initial investigation, and while their researcher decided to stay a night at Paul's home, she found no evidence of the supernatural. Jonathan notices that in the photographs she took, there appeared to be no lock on the bedroom door.
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Melanie runs a [=YouTube=] channel called "Ghost Hunt UK" along with her co-host Andy, sound engineer Peter, and camera operator Tony, for which they enter reputably haunted locations, occasionally illegally, with scientific eqiupment to look for evidence. The team plans to break into Cambridge Military Hospital, which is reported to be haunted by a ghost called the Grey Lady. Peter backs out of the project, citing concern over asbestos as his reasoning, so Melanie contacts various colleagues to find a temporary replacement. Georgie Barker, host of a podcast titled ''What the Ghost'', gives Melanie the contact of Sarah Baldwin, a sound engineer she had previously worked with. Melanie arranges to pick up Sarah for the project. When the team arrives at her address to collect her, Sarah doesn't come out so Melanie calls her number but receives no answer. Melanie then receives a call from an unknown number which turns out to be Sarah, who suddenly appears outside the van. Sarah chainsmokes during the entire two hour drive, and Melanie thinks she can smell some kind of floral perfume through the stench of the cigarettes. Upon arrival at the hospital, Sarah expresses displeasure and claims that Melanie hadn't told her about the location despite Melanie having given thorough details on the project. The team begins to collect footage. Melanie takes note of a graffittied phrase she finds: "Silk will not stitch the butcher's meat". The team sets up a camp to stay overnight in the hospital's main ward and set up shifts for a night watch. Sarah volunteers for the 2AM-4AM shift, which she gets as it's the least desired among the rest of the team. When Melanie goes to wake Sarah for her shift, she instantly gets up as if she hadn't been sleeping at all. Melanie wakes up around 3AM and notices that Sarah is gone, so takes a night vision camera to search for her. Melanie detects a strong smell of copper mixed with a faint smell of ammonia. Melanie goes upstairs and hears a voice, and finds Sarah gesturing and apologizing for trespassing before being flung back into the wall. Sarah shouts something in a language Melanie doesn't recognize, then removes her jacket to uncover a mangled arm. Melanie watches in horror as Sarah peels off the skin of her arm, then pulls it back on tightly and begins to staple it on with a staple gun. Melanie rushes back to the campsite shortly before Sarah returns. Melanie doesn't share what she saw with the others, and after they drop Sarah off, Tony requests that they not work with her again as she got "bad vibes" from her. Shortly before telling her story to the Institute, Melanie gives them a copy of the recording she took though admits that it was distorted and unclear, and Jonathan suggests she could have been dreaming or even made up the story.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan finds that Cambridge Military Hospital is being turned into a housing development. He notes that Melanie's story doesn't match any report of a Grey Lady ghost. Georgie is contacted and confirms that she had indeed worked with Sarah Baldwin, but Sarah can not be found by the Institute and the address she had been picked up from in the story wasn't occupied when the story took place and did not list Sarah as a past tenant. Jonathan recognizes Sarah's name but can't remember where from. In Melanie's recording, Jonathan notes that he can see two figures, one kneeling that must be Sarah, and a strangely tall man pointing and floating above the ground.
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Melanie runs a [=YouTube=] channel called "Ghost Hunt UK" along with her co-host Andy, sound engineer Peter, and camera operator Tony, for which they enter reputably haunted locations, occasionally illegally, with scientific eqiupment to look for evidence. The team plans to break into Cambridge Military Hospital, which is reported to be haunted by a ghost called the Grey Lady. Peter backs out of the project, citing concern over asbestos as his reasoning, so Melanie contacts various colleagues to find a temporary replacement. Georgie Barker, host of a podcast titled ''What the Ghost'', gives Melanie the contact of Sarah Baldwin, a sound engineer she had previously worked with. Melanie arranges to pick up Sarah for the project. When the team arrives at her address to collect her, Sarah doesn't come out so Melanie calls her number but receives no answer. Melanie then receives a call from an unknown number which turns out to be Sarah, who suddenly appears outside the van. Sarah chainsmokes during the entire two hour drive, and Melanie thinks she can smell some kind of floral perfume through the stench of the cigarettes. Upon arrival at the hospital, Sarah expresses displeasure and claims that Melanie hadn't told her about the location despite Melanie having given thorough details on the project. The team begins to collect footage. Melanie takes note of a graffittied phrase she finds: "Silk will not stitch the butcher's meat". The team sets up a camp to stay overnight in the hospital's main ward and set up shifts for a night watch. Sarah volunteers for the 2AM-4AM shift, which she gets as it's the least desired among the rest of the team. When Melanie goes to wake Sarah for her shift, she instantly gets up as if she hadn't been sleeping at all. Melanie wakes up around 3AM and notices that Sarah is gone, so takes a night vision camera to search for her. Melanie detects a strong smell of copper mixed with a faint smell of ammonia. Melanie goes upstairs and hears a voice, and finds Sarah gesturing and apologizing for trespassing before being flung back into the wall. Sarah shouts something in a language Melanie doesn't recognize, then removes her jacket to uncover a mangled arm. Melanie watches in horror as Sarah peels off the skin of her arm, then pulls it back on tightly and begins to staple it on with a staple gun. Melanie rushes back to the campsite shortly before Sarah returns. Melanie doesn't share what she saw with the others, and after they drop Sarah off, Tony requests that they not work with her again as she got "bad vibes" from her. Shortly before telling her story to the Institute, Melanie gives them a copy of the recording she took though admits that it was distorted and unclear, and Jonathan suggests she could have been dreaming or even made up the story.
!!Subsequent Investigation
Jonathan finds that Cambridge Military Hospital is being turned into a housing development. He notes that Melanie's story doesn't match any report of a Grey Lady ghost. Georgie is contacted and confirms that she had indeed worked with Sarah Baldwin, but Sarah can not be found by the Institute and the address she had been picked up from in the story wasn't occupied when the story took place and did not list Sarah as a past tenant. Jonathan recognizes Sarah's name but can't remember where from. In Melanie's recording, Jonathan notes that he can see two figures, one kneeling that must be Sarah, and a strangely tall man pointing and floating above the ground.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Josh is found with his throat having been crushed by a thick woolen rope and his lower jaw torn off, though it's not clear which happened first]].
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Unusually, all the teeth were identical, but in various states of decay.
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* ItisDehumanizing: Trevor only calls the vampires "it" or by their full names ("Sylvia [=McDonald=]" instead of just "Sylvia" every time), nailing how they're really beasts that have taken human-sounding names.
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* {{Autocannibalism}}: [[spoiler:How Lee winds up losing his hand. He tries to threaten Angela into stopping her curse, but when he goes to attack her he winds up biting off his own hand.]]
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* {{Sleepwalking}}: Whatever is in the casket makes Joshua start doing this--he refuses to open it while he's awake, but he keeps waking up with the key in hand, headed for the lock. Luckily, cold wakes him up, so he's able to stop it by keeping the key in a block of ice.
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* {{Sleepwalking}}: Whatever is in the casket makes Joshua start doing this--he refuses to open it while he's awake, but he keeps waking up with the key in hand, headed for the lock. Luckily, cold wakes him up, so he's able to stop it by keeping the key in a block of ice. \n* SpotOfTea: How Joshua tries to calm himself down when the casket starts to disturb him. .
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The first episode in which Jonathan takes a statement directly rather than reading one from the archive; we hear the story from Naomi firsthand.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It's not readily apparent what is going on in this particular statement, or how it relates to the larger metaplot. [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that the power at work in this statement is the Flesh, and that Tomas Haan is meant to be involved, but this was so early in the process that the details of what exactly the Flesh ''was'' and how it operated hadn't been worked out yet.]]
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* DeadlyBook: ''Ex Altiora'', the first of many Leitner books in the series. Dominic only has it in his possession for a couple of days, so it doesn't have much time to do much other than send him into fugue states and afflict him with ever increasing vertigo and scents of ozone, but it's implied things would have gone very badly for him indeed if Gerard Kaey hadn't found him.
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* DeadlyBook: Ex Altiora. It's filled with images of tall mountains that induce a sense of vertigo in all who view them, and appears to have the ability to read minds, as [[spoiler:it displayed a Lichtenberg figure identical to that which covered the body of Dominic's childhood friend after he got struck by lightning.]] [[spoiler:This is the first Leitner tome encountered in the series.]]
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* DeadlyBook: Ex Altiora. It's filled ''Ex Altiora'', the first of many Leitner books in the series. Dominic only has it in his possession for a couple of days, so it doesn't have much time to do much other than send him into fugue states and afflict him with images of tall mountains that induce a sense of ever increasing vertigo in all who view them, and appears to scents of ozone, but it's implied things would have gone very badly for him indeed if Gerard Kaey hadn't found him.
* CallForward: Several.
** Dominic mentions that one of theability to read minds, as [[spoiler:it displayed woodcut images had a Lichtenberg figure identical to sprawled across it that which covered looked exactly like the body of Dominic's scars his childhood friend after he Michael Crew got from being struck by lightning.]] [[spoiler:This is lightning. This incident and the first Leitner tome encountered connection to the book is explained later in the series.series.
** When Gerard [[spoiler:burns ''Ex Altiora'']] and goes to pick up the still smoldering trash can, Dominic warns him it will still be hot; Gerard just shrugs and says he's had worse. This references the events in future episode 'First Aid', which happened earlier that year.
** This episode introduces Mary Kaey [[spoiler:and her strange relationship with death thanks to a different Leitner.]]
* CallForward: Several.
** Dominic mentions that one of the
** When Gerard [[spoiler:burns ''Ex Altiora'']] and goes to pick up the still smoldering trash can, Dominic warns him it will still be hot; Gerard just shrugs and says he's had worse. This references the events in future episode 'First Aid', which happened earlier that year.
** This episode introduces Mary Kaey [[spoiler:and her strange relationship with death thanks to a different Leitner.]]
