The Fog That Changed the World

Within days, entire nations were swallowed. Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil… names that once evoked vast landscapes and vibrant cultures now became synonymous with absolute silence. The first reports came fragmented, desperate. Radios transmitted broken voices, muffled screams, static interrupted by sounds that didn't belong to this world. Then, silence. Half the planet was cut off, erased from the map as if it had never existed.

But the worst was yet to come.

The Witnesses of Horror

Among the classified archives of various nations, some testimonies survived. Fragments of intercepted transmissions from those dark days offer a glimpse into the horror faced by those who tried to cross the fog.

Transmission #1 – German Soldier (Operation "Nebelbrecher")Date: September 23, 1942

"We're moving in... My God, what is this? The mist... it's not normal. I can't see my hands in front of me. I hear something... footsteps, but there's no one here. Wait! Something is moving among the trees. Captain, I think I saw... No, it can't be! They're here... they're watching us. I don't know what they are, but they're not human. They're surrounding us! Please, someone help us..."

(The transmission ends abruptly with distorted screams and a sound like a wet crunch.)

Transmission #2 – American Pilot (Mission "Fog Cutter")

Date: October 5, 1942

"Control, we're over the perimeter. The fog seems... alive. It moves as if it's breathing. Wait, something's affecting the instruments. My altimeter... it's not working. I see lights below, inside the fog. They look like fireworks, but... too regular. Like signals. Oh, God... something just hit the wing. I can't see anything, but I feel something out there! Control, we need to get out of here now. It's right behind me!"

(The audio ends with a high-pitched scream followed by static. The plane never returned to base.)

Written Testimony – British Soldier (Expedition "Southern Veil")

Fragment recovered from a diary found near the perimeter.

"Day 3: We've set up camp a few hundred meters from the edge. The men are restless. No one sleeps well. They say they hear voices at night, calling them by their names. I've heard them too. They're not human. It sounds like they're speaking all at once, but you can't understand them. It's like they're underwater. This morning, two men disappeared. They just got up and walked into the fog. When we tried to stop them, they fought like wild animals. Their eyes... they weren't the same. They glowed, as if there was fire inside."

These accounts, though incomplete, fueled collective panic. The descriptions varied, but they all agreed on one thing: whatever dwelled in the fog did not belong to this world.

The Forced End of the War

The appearance of the fog drastically changed the course of World War II. At first, the involved powers tried to ignore it, focusing on their military objectives. However, it soon became clear that the phenomenon posed a greater threat than any human army.

Germany and Operation "Nebelbrecher":

Hitler ordered multiple incursions to investigate the fog, believing it might be a secret weapon developed by the Allies. However, after losing thousands of men and tons of equipment without results, even he had to admit that the situation was out of control. The Wehrmacht began withdrawing troops from the eastern and western fronts to strengthen defenses in the south, leaving other key areas vulnerable. But the real catastrophe came when paranoia consumed the Third Reich from within.

Hitler, obsessed with the idea that the fog contained some kind of divine or alien power, decided to take extreme measures. He ordered the construction of a massive underground complex in the Alps, known as "Der Nebeltempel" (The Temple of the Fog). There, Nazi scientists conducted horrifying experiments using fog samples collected during failed expeditions. Prisoners of war and captured civilians were deliberately exposed to small emanations of the fog. The results were always catastrophic. However, Hitler was convinced that the key to dominating the world lay in understanding the fog.

In April 1943, with the Allied army advancing rapidly toward Berlin and the morale of the Nazi regime at its lowest, Hitler made a drastic decision. According to rumors leaked by officers who managed to escape, Hitler left his bunker accompanied by a small group of scientists and SS guards. His destination: a secret facility in southern France, where they had supposedly recreated a simulation of the fog using stolen technology. Witnesses claim that Hitler voluntarily entered that artificial fog chamber, muttering something about "speaking with the gods." He was never seen again.

Without their leader, the Third Reich collapsed quickly. Allied forces took Berlin, and the remnants of the Nazi regime were hunted down and executed. However, the mystery of what happened to Hitler inside the fog remains one of history's greatest enigmas.

The United States and Mission "Fog Cutter":

The Allies also launched several aerial and ground missions, but every attempt ended in failure. The Pentagon feared that the fog might expand again, and the economic and human losses began to weigh heavily on public morale. Additionally, Japan, one of the U.S.'s main enemies, had lost much of its territory to the fog, leading Tokyo to request a temporary truce to focus on the new threat.

The Terror in the Philippines and Indonesia:

Before the fog consumed the Philippines and Indonesia, the events that preceded its arrival were enough to sow panic across the region. In the Philippines, residents reported strange phenomena that began weeks before the mist appeared. Domestic animals became frantic, fleeing toward the sea or attacking their owners without apparent reason. At night, the forests echoed with inhuman sounds: high-pitched screams, metallic creaks, and something that sounded like a chorus of whispering voices speaking in a language no one could understand.

In Indonesia, witnesses described how everyday objects began behaving anomalously. Clocks stopped at noon, regardless of brand or model. Mirrors reflected distorted images, showing figures that no one else could see. In Java, a Buddhist temple was found completely empty, its doors wide open and the altars covered with a thin layer of black dust that seemed to move when no one was watching.

When the fog finally arrived, it did so within hours. Entire cities were swallowed, and communications ceased abruptly. The few survivors who managed to escape told chilling stories: of people who simply stopped in the middle of the street, as if something had reached them, before crumbling into ashes. Others claimed to have seen human-like shadows floating in the fog, reaching out to them, while their faces remained hidden.

The Survivors and Their Strange Changes

Weeks later, the United States discovered a group of survivors who had managed to escape from the Philippines and Indonesia just before the fog consumed them. Many of them sought refuge in the Hawaiian Islands, where they tried to rebuild their lives. However, something surprising began to happen to the younger ones. Teenagers and children who had been briefly exposed to the fog showed extraordinary physical and mental changes. They were faster, stronger, smarter. They could solve complex problems in seconds, run impossible distances without tiring, and detect danger before it occurred.

American authorities decided to keep this information secret, fearing the panic it might cause. However, secret corporations soon found out. Organizations like Obsidian Veil and Erebus began recruiting these young survivors, luring them with promises of a better life for their families. They offered money, housing, and protection, all in exchange for submitting to medical and psychological experiments. Many accepted, desperate to help their loved ones.

What these corporations discovered was terrifying. The changes in the young people weren't just physical or mental; they seemed to be connected to something deeper, something that resonated with the same energy emanating from the fog. The subjects began experiencing recurring visions, vivid dreams of places that didn't exist on Earth. Some claimed to have seen floating geometric patterns, while others swore they could feel "presences" watching them constantly.

The Soviet Union and the "Red Silence"

Stalin kept many of the incidents related to the fog secret, fearing that panic would undermine the morale of the Soviet people. However, when entire cities near the perimeter began to disappear, Moscow had no choice but to withdraw troops from the Eastern Front and negotiate a pause in hostilities.

Finally, in December 1942, the major powers signed the "Global Truce Treaty," a provisional agreement to cease hostilities and focus their resources on studying and containing the fog. It was an unpopular and chaotic decision, but necessary. The war continued informally on some fronts, but the world's attention was fixed on the south.

The Birth of Secret Corporations

Over time, the major nations decided to set aside official studies of the fog, fearing that any attempt to penetrate it would only make things worse. However, in the shadows, private organizations obsessed with uncovering the truth began to emerge. These corporations operated outside the law, funded by eccentric magnates, reluctant governments, and even cults that saw the fog as a divine portal.

One of the most infamous was Obsidian Veil, an organization founded by a former Nazi officer who escaped after the fall of Berlin. Obsidian Veil recruited marginalized scientists, war criminals, and deserters to carry out inhumane experiments near the perimeter. Their underground facilities were filled with containment chambers where prisoners were deliberately exposed to small emanations of the fog. The results were always the same: madness, horrifying mutations, and death. But that didn't stop Obsidian Veil. Every failure provided them with more data, more clues about what lurked inside.

Another corporation, known simply as Erebus, emerged in the United States. Erebus was different; it didn't seek to conquer or understand the fog but to communicate with it. Its leaders believed the fog was an alien intelligence, an echo from another dimension. Using stolen technology and forbidden methods, they built massive antennas that emitted frequencies designed to "talk" to the anomaly. According to rumors, some of these transmissions received responses. Distorted voices, coded messages that no one could decipher. And then, the disappearances. Scientists, engineers, guards... all vanished without a trace.

The most terrifying thing about these corporations wasn't what they did but what they found. Fragments of strange objects dragged from within the fog: metals that glowed in the dark, bones that didn't belong to any known species, artifacts covered in impossible inscriptions. Each discovery raised more questions than answers, fueling global paranoia.

The Legacy of Fear

As the years passed, the fog became a kind of mythological monster, an omnipresent shadow that haunted humanity's subconscious. Although the major nations publicly downplayed its importance, they knew the real danger was still there, waiting.

In areas near the perimeter, local stories took on a life of their own. There were legends about entire families disappearing in the night, about children who played near the edge and returned speaking unknown languages. Scientists working on secret projects reported inexplicable anomalies: clocks stopping when approaching the fog, animals fleeing in terror before reaching the limit, and even people claiming to have seen fleeting visions of apocalyptic futures while observing the mist.

The worst part of it all was that, although the fog seemed immobile, it wasn't always so. Some witnesses claimed to have seen small tendrils of vapor slowly advancing northward, testing, exploring. Others swore that, on moonless nights, they could hear low, sinister laughter coming from within.

And so, the world learned to live with the constant fear that, one day, the fog might decide to keep moving forward.