"Are you sure you don't need me here?" Anton made a last-minute call at the airport before boarding the plane to Japan.
"You can work in Japan if you love being an exorcist so much. I remember you used to skip classes and hide inside the cone to avoid training." Sebastian ended the call after saying that, hoping his son wouldn't bother him further.
Anton shook his head and muttered, "Dirty old man, I hope you don't call me halfway through the trip."
Boarding the plane in a first-class seat, Anton focused on the news online and soon found a program that caught his attention titled "What the World is Hiding from Us."
Pressing play on the video, Anton stared at the screen with great interest in what he was watching.
...
In an old and very dilapidated room, a man completely dressed in black, his hands protected by old and worn leather gloves, took a dilapidated cassette with a series of unknown numbers recorded on the exterior.
At first glance, the cassette was too old to be played. However, the man didn't stop and placed the cassette into a quite new player that helped convert this type of material into MP3 audio.
When the man in black inserted the cassette into the player, he pressed the play button and left everything on a small wooden table in front of a fireplace with a slowly burning fire.
The sound of the player was clear, creating an ideal atmosphere for a tense and chilling setting.
"[00:20 seconds.]"
As time progressed, the oppression in the surroundings generated a feeling of great discomfort. Just as the cassette was about to reach one minute of playback, a very old and ancient voice, with a tone and rhythm grave enough to send shivers down the spine, emanated from the cassette player.
"[In life, one of our first encounters with the supernatural and fear is strange sounds or situations that we are not familiar with, whose origin we cannot detect. And it is at that moment that we think, What could it be? What kind of thing produces it? [What is happening?]"
Under the old and ancient voice, everything was in place for each pair of ears that heard the perfectly narrated story to be captivated.
"[Creak! Creak! Creak!]"
The squeak of a door was suddenly heard from the cassette player.
"What you are about to hear are various cases in which we will analyze several recordings of that nature. We will listen firsthand to what is happening in the world; we will be witnesses to what is slowly eating away at our reality. Listen carefully, turn up the volume, and put on headphones, because if you can explain what they are or if you have a theory about them, your comments will be welcome. Otherwise, it will give you a lot to think about, especially when you hear a sound that you are not sure how to identify. "
The voice from the cassette player fell silent for a moment; the sound of a creaking door stopped, and the sound of a strong wind brushing the microphone from where the audio recording came was heard.
"The following comes from Switzerland; exactly which city is unknown. The person who uploaded it identified himself as Marc and explained that the noise caught his attention so much that he decided to record it. "
Under the attention of the audio, the sound of a button being pressed, possibly coming from a voice recorder, was heard. When the button was pressed, the sound of the cold wind hitting the microphone was heard again.
The crunch of footsteps could be clearly heard pressing what seemed like small, dry wooden sticks sinking into the gravel ground as they continued their path.
"[02:47 minutes.]"
Under the sound of footsteps, a sound was heard that easily, for inexperienced people in the situation, could be mistakenly considered a melody. The sound was in three different beats, or rather, three tones, of which the last one sounded deep and magical.
The more the sound was heard, the more a void in the chest could be felt. The sound generated a deep void, as if what produced it was not generated by something alive.
Each time, the sound became slower, generating more seconds to finish the unknown sound of three beats. As time passed, the thing that produced the sound took longer to finish the tone of the three steps.
"Well, there you have it. For people who are more knowledgeable and are delving into the deepest collection of information, they will know what I am about to tell them. The forests and jungles of Switzerland are a defining feature of its beautiful and wonderful landscape. They cover more than a third of the country's surface, and each year they grow to the size of Lake Thun. One of the reasons for this incredible feat is Switzerland's strict forestry law, which stipulates that forests must be preserved and distributed regionally. If you search, you will find news that was censored enough to find only small fragments about what happened in a forest in Switzerland. Around mid-2017, more than a thousand bone remains, all from human parts, and more than two thousand bone parts from animals, were never identified."
The voice stopped and mocked dryly with irony.
"[Masters in Ethology claimed that the bones of animals were much older than those of humans. According to their words, the thing that did such a massacre got tired of continuously feeding on animals and began to taste human flesh. "
Very few people knew that ethics is a branch of biology that addresses the study of the spontaneous behavior of animals in their natural environment. Ethology is a relatively new discipline within animal science, although some of its principles have been used in animal production for years.
However, there was no behavior or connection related to what was said in the cassette. In fact, there is nothing similar around the world related to the case of the missing tourist, leaving it in mystery. Therefore, it could be said that this behavior was not caused by something known in the animal kingdom.
Before the investigation, footprints or traces left by humans were never mentioned. Therefore, there was nothing that could identify that the area was violated by traces of struggle or resistance, leaving the researchers speechless.
"[The bones stripped of all human flesh were apparently collected by that thing that took care to leave them extremely clean. All this information was discovered due to the disappearance of a tourist woman. Her husband, who took charge of looking for her upon learning of her disappearance, was the only one who saw his wife's clothes in a specific area.
Under the proper and deep investigation of the Swiss government, they found that terrible scene. The information, as evident, was hidden enough not to be found by ninety percent of people uneducated in research methods.
As I have always told you, the governments of the world are hiding from us what is developing in the world.] "
After a short pause, the voice sounded again and began to narrate what remained.
"[Now let's go back to an extremely short past; let's go back to the end of 2017... The following is declassified material, taken by a Chilean Navy helicopter in early December.
This voice audio belongs to them, undoubtedly a seal of seriousness.] Although the video is extremely bad, we can appreciate the audio with extreme clarity. The first thing we notice is how the camera focuses on an unidentified animal; that's how the Chilean Navy classified it.
When the soldiers identified that something was not right, it didn't take long for a formation to gather around the unidentified beast. What we could only speculate by watching the video fragment is that if we describe it only by sight, we could say it's smoke, so why doesn't it blur in the powerful air generated when the helicopter landed near that thing? Why does it remain static in its place? Is it perhaps that it is a solid material in the air? But if that's the case, how is it possible that it was created and, moreover, came from an unknown creature?
Undoubtedly, in 2017, many things happened that were ignored without giving them the importance needed in the matter of the unknown. And I want to insist that this material was extracted from none other than the Navy of the country of Chile; no one could refute the information that deserves the greatest protection and discipline that an army of a country generates. Listen carefully... [All this material is real; it was difficult to find it again in its original format.] "
When the voice stopped, the sound of pressing a button that possibly belonged to an old audio recorder or player was heard for the second time.
We have a kind of unidentified creature; around its body, it generated a kind of smoke curtain that does not reveal its true body. [What a strange phenomenon! Now that we are approaching the target, the smoke curtain does not move; it remains static without traces of dissipation.
"Should we try to investigate?" "Negative, wait for orders, and stand by in a safe perimeter." "ROAR!!!!!!!!"
...]
Anton woke up abruptly from his daydream, looked at the screen, and fell silent upon realizing that many of the conspiracies debated online were very curious and interesting. Many of them were true without people realizing it, so it was something they should take more into account if they wanted to control any information leak.
"I wonder what would happen if humans knew about dark entities." Anton thought for a moment before closing his eyes.