[WP] Society is forced to either cope with or investigate new "fictitious forces"[1] that are plaguing our universe. Some scientists decide to investigate.
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Entry 13: 10-26-2017
> There was another "earthquake" today, this time in the city. Hundreds of people were hurt, and the news is trying to call it a mechanical failure this time. Last time it was a terrorist attack, now it's just a fluke engineering mishap.
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> I don't buy into that for a second.
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> I count at least ten different cases now, articles getting pulled down off the web quick as they come up- but not before I get a copy of them. My folders are filling up: There was all that buzz 2015 when a portion of some parking-lot just up and went missing. Hundreds of military and Agency vehicles driving around a Walmart in Upstate NY. Then it gets labelled a sinkhole. Then it gets pulled off Fox, CNN, everything. Poof, just like it was never there.
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> They're hiding something.
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Entry 22: 01-14-2018
> There was another "Sinkhole" in some farmer's field, West county. It's not just New York anymore, I caught a similar articles get stripped and pulled from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. They're writing the whole mess off as crop-circle pranks: As if a bunch of kids are running around with shovels and cutting perfectly symmetrical cuts of land- then driving off with two feet of dirt too.
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> What kind of teenagers have their hands on five or more 100,000 dollar vehicles? Better yet, how has nobody noticed them taking all the soil? Or pavement. Or if these Satellite images are to be believed: Portions of cars, trees, pavement and buildings while they're at it?
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> The cuts look clean. Like something is just slicing through and disappearing with the portions. I need to do more research.
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Entry 39: 05-06-2019
> They've stepped up their game. Articles barely even get published anymore, but on the net there are others like me now. A rare few of us who noticed.
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> One guy claims his neighbor was one of the farmers who reported the weird "Sinkholes" on his property. He got a ton of photos, right up and close before the Feds and spooks swarmed the place.
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> They're something else. Way better quality than the ariel views I've been working with. High resolution, he took them with his cellphone: I swear to go individual blades of grass are cut down the center along the edges.
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> If these were pranks, the work is impossibly detailed.
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Entry 60: 11-11-2019
> Section of lake went missing on camera, someone uploaded it to youtube. I caught ahold of it by chance- just as it went down. Screen shots are all I have left, never got the full footage.
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> One second the lake was normal
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> The next, a portion of the water seemed to fade.
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> Then it was blank, like a perfect cut of the water had been taken out- like someone took a spoon to jello, right before it crashed back in on itself, finding equilibrium.
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> Make a wish.
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> If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.
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Entry 73: 12-20-2019
> Message board we were using has been tapped, our network has been infiltrated. Though I've been suspicious off it for awhile, but now I'm convinced.
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> I got a call on my burner phone from one of the guys. A tech kid, younger guy from his voice. He'd been there with me since the start, found resources I'd never even dreamed of: Really devoted to the cause.
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> I never knew his real name, but Sandlot called me in a rush said to "watch out." Said there were unmarked vans on his street, that he saw evidence someone had been through his apartment. He told me he was relocating, throwing the phone, he'd call me on the next one in a few days.
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> Never heard back.
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> All of my information is now being stored off the network, two back-ups are put in the basement safe. From here on in I'm being as careful as possible. This is getting serious.
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Entry 236: 02-19-2021
> I think they've shut down everyone but me. I know they're closing in. I finally followed the breadcrumbs back to their hiding places though, switched the roles for a bit.
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> It's the Feds, we'd been right: But it's not just them.
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> I saw U.N stamps, even some Russian signatures on the documents I managed to grab shots of. The U.S Military is working with some big players here: This isn't just happening here, this is happening everywhere.
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> Throughout the documents, I keep seeing one reference, over and over. Something called [MANA] signatures. The rest are inked, either physically or digitally blacked out. I don't have the clearance yet, but I'm working on that. There's more to find here.
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> These documents go back for a long, long time. Before 2015 even, some of them
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> If they think that this can stay hidden forever, they're dead wrong.
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Entry 281: 07-04-2024
> Confirmed: Government is trying to find me. They know I've been in, they're trying to figure out how. I've dropped some sloppy hints in misdirection, hoping that can stall the chase for awhile.
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> Right now they're thinking it's one of their own. I want to keep it that way.
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> Big find last night though. They're tracking certain people, heavy duty surveillance, millions upon millions of dollars a piece: and they're all over the county. Seems like they're looking for similar patterns in the [MANA] signatures, that phrase they keep mentioning. I'm not on it, not certain yet whether that's good or bad.
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> The closest one is only an hour and a half away. Name, address, blood type, picture.
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> Rochester downtown: Sarah Vernon
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Entry 356: 10-25-2025
> Fifty days of watching now, and still nothing. I'm on the outside looking in here, I can clearly see the resources, the time, the effort government agencies have devoted to this: Yet I still don't understand what they're trying to accomplish.
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> I've been following from a distance, touching in my routine things. I got an apartment nearby the target, I passed her by time to time. Young woman, pretty, oblivious. Aside from her looks, I can't see anything too remarkable about her.
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> I've found at least three people in plain-clothes I think are working for the government, but I'm not gutsy enough to follow them. I know there are probably more. Dozens if the report I ripped and ran with is to be trusted. My only interactions in and around their area of surveillance are as mundane as I can make them.
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> I take my sweet fucking time perusing the organic lettuce.
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> Let me tell you, if this girl has anything exceptional about her at all, it's how long she takes to pick out a one-minute rice packet.
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Entry 357: 10-26-2025
> I get it now.
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> I really, really get it.
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> Its come a long way from just youtube videos, weather patterns, sinkholes, subway trains and earthquakes. A very long way. It's real now. The effort, the detail, the money and the secrecy.
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> They're afraid.
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> They're afraid, and they've got some good reasons to be.
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> I watched through binoculars from the shaded windows of my apartment, and I saw a whole team of armed Agents get cut down to ribbons. I saw some of them wither, like grapes left out in the sun. I saw why too.
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> So much blood. Bodies and death.
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> I recorded it. All of it.
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> A man came down from the sky, sunk through the roof, and murdered everyone. Like something out of a horror movie, only I have everything on video, two angles. I finally have some proof I'm not just delusional. This obsession of mine, the lying, the hiding: It was real. Undeniably real.
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> People need to know. The Government can't keep this hidden, they can't keep claiming global warming, or pranks, or sinkholes, or earthquakes: This is something different.
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> I'm sending it all out tonight. I've made copies of my copies, a deadman's switch is going live tonight. If I don't check in, these are getting sent to every major news outlet in the Nation. Overhead there are drones in the sky, there are helicopters responding: I've seen things shot down- I'm still recording.
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> People are being evacuated and I'm just sitting in this tiny apartment filling the impossible.
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> People need to know. This whole time, it wasn't really that girl Sarah or anyone else that they were watching. It was that signature: That [MANA] reference that kept popping up, the one what didn't make a lick of sense.
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> Well now it does.
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> It's Magic.
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