The following journal entries have been made accessible to use through unknown reasons and for unknown purpose. Caution is advised while reading, the memetic effects of this document are still unknown. Data is still incoming, updated entries to be expected.

 

12/25/2023

 

"I started journaling again, it's always been really helpful and I guess Christmas makes me really sentimental. 

I decided that I'm going to kill myself in a year, if things don't start to change. I'm taking a new job, it's remote and outside the U.S. I can make some money to pay Mom back, and if I don't feel better I can simply disappear into the woods. I hope it doesn't come to that, but I'm really starting to think that I don't belong here. The things that are easy for everyone else, living, breathing, dating, it all seems so impossible and even alien to me. I feel like NOTHING. I wasted so many chances, and now I'm wasting other people's lives. They say it's not my fault but how the fuck am I supposed to believe that when if I had just done what I was supposed to, I would've been there, and he'd still be alive.

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I don't see any path for me to forgiveness.

 

 

My friend says I should "fake it until I make it" █████ has always given me really good advice, she's one of the few people that I feel gets me, or at least comes close. If this doesn't work then I'm all out of options. I'm not going to tell her about my plans though, she works at the facility or at least close-by."

 

 

12/27/2023

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"Christmas was pretty good this year, was a pretty quiet one but I'm grateful to see what folks I have left. It was nice to see everyone and just have fun, no one brought up the accident and to be honest I really didn't think about it either. At least not until dinner, the empty chair, the awkward pause because they usually say the prayer. 

 

I thought I did a pretty good job of not letting it show on my face, but after dinner ███ came to talk to me about it. I know they're just trying to be supportive, but the pep talks just make me feel worse. I can't lie to them and say that their advice just somehow makes it magically better, and I can't be truly honest either, so I'm stuck in some painful in-between.

 

Would it be better if I was alone for a while? That's a tough question, Dr. ████████ says that it helps to talk to other people because that's how we REALLY form our sense of identity. Alone a person acts and it doesn't really mean anything, but when they act around society that reflects something about them. Society must want to kill me too, I'm useless, I haven't done anything and every opportunity I've let slip through my fingers like sand.
 

 

2/23/2024

 

Guess I'm still pretty bad at these. Doing some house work when I noticed this journal here. Things have been okay. I've been working at a local gas station while I wait for all my paperwork to go through. It kind of feels weird having a college degree and working here, it's not that I'm better than everyone else but I obviously should be doing something else with my life.

I decided to put myself out there again and start dating. No matches yet but we'll see what happens. Dad would want me to be happy, it just feels hard. It's like a mile long black cloak that follows me everywhere I go. I'll finish this entry after I'm done with my laundry.

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3/1/2024

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I've begun having this recurring dream of a deer. The way it usually happens is I'll be doing something totally normal, and there it is, in my living room, at my part time job at the gas station, in my car. It looks at me and says something I can never remember.

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I'm starting that new job soon, a couple months actually. It's finally a chance to get away, start fresh. Maybe a little time in the woods is just what I need, plus ███ says Dunkeltaler has plenty of wildlife, it even has a stream next to the base that has natural trout and salmon running through it. 

I think I'm just excited to get out of this backwoods town, there's nothing here. I know there's not much in the Swedish mountainsides either, but it's more nothing than here.

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3/14/2024

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It's official, I've passed all my background and drug tests (thanks ███████ haha.)  If it was something more serious than playing with satellites I'd feel about about cheating that test but it's just for weed and it's not like I can bring any with me. Honestly a tolerance break could be kind of nice, as long as I can stay pretty busy. I do best when I have a lot to do and several things to focus on for a while, if not I tend to overthink and get kind of moody.

 

3/14/2025

DON'T GO TO DUNKELTALER 

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3/16/2024

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███ must be playing a prank on me. I just finally got unpacked here at the facility and man are things a mess. I finally get a chance to open my journal and I see that weird message. She must have gone through my things before I got here. 

They let me bring my GoPro under the condition I upload my footage to a YouTube channel they have here. I mostly just want to ride the quad around these trails, last time I toured out here they let me drive around and it was weirdly relaxing. The roaring scream of the four-wheeler mixed with all the scenery really helps clear my thoughts for some reason.

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It was a weird day, I found some weird canister of stuff out in the woods by some bones. They looked kind of human. My boss Dr. ███ said to be on the lookout for this kind of thing, so I dug it up and stashed it in the garage. It smelled weerd I hope don't have to mess with it much.

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3/19/2024

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It's been a few days so I guess I should write more. This place is BEAUTIFUL and CREEPY. Switzerland is a dream but the facility here is very unnerving. There's a random furnace in the basement, and a meat locker, all these bunk-beds. Everything telling me this place wasn't made for just one person.

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I feel like I'm not supposed to be here. I'm not good enough. Why did they pick me for this I barely know what dials I'm fiddling with and what buttons I'm pressing. I went to school for Astronomy but this is something else.

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4/02/2024

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Okay I don't know if I'm going crazy but things aren't adding up. I know I can get a little paranoid but this place definitely wasn't built for one person and whenever I ask my boss about it they dodge the question. Enara won't talk about it much either, she just tells me to be careful and I think I found out why.

I recorded some odd footage last night of some kind of creature. I sent it to Dr. Bao and I think he's gaslighting me because I can see it clear as day and yet Bao sees nothing. I recorded it with my GoPro while I was out early checking the satellites, it had glowing eyes and long legs and arms made out of some weird tubes. I think I'm going to call it Tubeman, but it kinda looks like the mythical vegetoid.

Is this why I'm here? They want me to record but whenever I show them anything they don't seem impressed, all they care about is the tapes.

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4/03/2024

I found a picnic today over in the west valley. Next to it appeared to be two floating hover crafts of some kind. I've never seen anything like it and if I didn't have it on video I wouldn't believe I found it either. The ships look like computer cursors, there was two of these floating white diamonds and a picnic blanket set up with what I could only guess is food but I didn't recognize any of it except for one of the items looked like a purple pumpkin. They also appear to have a miniature model of their own aircraft however I am not sure if they do perhaps have a purpose maybe for diagnostics?

I think I've found actual proof of alien existence and I don't know if I'm processing this information correctly because all I can focus on is for what reasons did they decide to not only have a picnic here in Dunkeltaler Forest but here on Earth to begin with. As I was investigating I feel like I heard footsteps running into the woods but I couldn't see anything. 

As I write this I'm waiting for Dr. Bao to respond to this footage I've recorded. Is this what they sent me here to find?

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4/06/2024 

It's been a weird few days. I got some weird song off of one of the satellites. I don't know how to explain it other than it sounds like crystals singing to each other. I'm guessing some interference but it's stuck in my mind. There's no words, just this haunting elegy ringing out in space. The lamentations of the void I guess or some mix up from someone's music project here on Earth. Maybe.

Because at the same time I managed to find those two cursor ships floating out in space. Their ships pulse in way that made it seem like I was getting something from a planet but nope, the images came back later and it's 100% the cursor ships I saw earlier. I feel like they are trying to tell me something but I can't understand their language. Whatever data was broadcast from them is completely indecipherable to me.

 

4/07/2024

The base might be haunted. I was moving some stuff around in the basement and I swear I saw a metal bucket slide across the floor. I'm going to set some cameras up in the stairwell and basement, for now I have it blocked off mostly for my own comfort and sanity. It's not like a ghost will stop just because a crate is in the way.

I'd say things have been quiet, at the very least there have been no signs of aliens or cryptids aside from whatever is haunting the basement. I keep hearing these distant explosions though. They sound distant but I can still tell they are coming from somewhere here in Dunkeltaler, but I haven't found any signs like burned plants. Not sure what's going on, but I'll take the breather will I can get it.

 

4/08/2024

Well that didn't last. I'm updating this in the morning because what I saw was so crazy I don't want to get too busy and forget to write this down, and in case anything happens to the footage... they appeared last night/early this morning, above the signal connection tower. The ship hovered there for a few minutes until I left to go outside and get a better look, then I saw everything behind the ship warp and distort as it formed a wormhole and disappeared. I get the vague feeling it's looking after me for some reason, but I can't explain.

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4/09/2024

Things just keep getting stranger here. A few days ago I noticed all the mannequins disappear around the base. I thought maybe my mind was just playing tricks on me somehow, maybe I had imagined them in the first place or I have no idea. The mind makes up all kinds of stuff to make itself feel sane I thought, well...

I ended up finding them all lined up by one of the satellites quite a while away from the base. I feel like I'm being pranked. I think I'm going ask Dr. Bao if I can pay back my advance, break my contract and leave. This isn't funny anymore.

4/10/2024

Someone broke into the base.

 

4/10/2024

 

Okay it was just the TV playing tricks on me. I guess I had left it on "auto-play" and it started playing some of my own recordings making me think someone was breaking in. The radar has been showing entities slowly surrounding the base, but whenever I go out to check I don't see anything. 

Dr. Bao says that someone should be on their way to come get me, but I'm starting to get the feeling he just says what I want to hear. He says he's looking out for me, but I don't know how true that is either.

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4/11/2024

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Well I officially can't leave. I am exhausted but I want to try and get this down. I finally figured out WHERE Dunkeltaler is and decided I was going to try and use what's left in the ATV as far as gas to get to Schüpfheim or even Hasle. ASO has been developing this area since at least the 1970s and they even seem to have some sort of control over the satellite imagery of this place. Google maps obviously doesn't have the facility, it doesn't even have a lake or the river here. I only know where this place is located due to some stuff I found laying around the base including some travel guides.

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I was getting ready to leave this morning when I saw smoke rising from the west. I don't know why that stopped me, I was getting ready to abandon this place it shouldn't matter that the place is burning down right? I thought about leaving but I thought of that deer I saw on the cameras a few nights ago. While I have my problems with ASO, I can't just leave this forest to burn.

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What I found wasn't a fire. Instead the Cursors seem to have set up some kind of tree house structure. All in all it was quite cosy, they had some chairs and even some pictures set up. Curiosity got the better of me though. There was some kind of chest looking piece of equipment (like a container) but when I touched it I felt a pulse blast me off the tree house and set off some kind of alarm.

I tried to run, but they caught up to me and gave me a swift kick before running off. I managed to get their outline on video, but they have some kind of cloaking technology that makes them see through.

I tried to leave, I actually managed to get the ATV past the gate. However, no matter which way I went I seemed to end up where I started. And then everything went black.

By my calculation, I should be miles away from Dunkeltaler, a little closer up north to Schüpfheim  but with all the darkness it got hard to tell. I felt the forest staring at me, and then before I knew it, I was back at the base.

The forest doesn't want me leave.

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