-TRANSCRIBER NOTEMy name is Robert and I recently saw a particularly strange story in the local newspaper that caught my eye. I went to the home of the man in the article and talked to his family. They told me that he was missing, and let me look at his computer and work area to see if I could find anything. What I found was shocking and I got permission to transcribe the information to text. Here is some basic information before I get started: the man’s name is Joshua Hall, and he is from a small town called Cameron, North Carolina. He is 25 years old and works as a writer. He is engaged to be married, and has no reason to just disappear. Currently, the police are engaged in a large scale comb of the woods behind his house. They have been for a couple of weeks now and have not found a single clue as to his whereabouts. The last time anybody saw him, he was entering those woods with a shotgun, which isn’t strange because of his history as a hunter. That’s about it for that. There are over 200 sheets of paper that I got from his family, but I’ll start with the first strange thing.
09 February 2012 So the tonight I was in the living room of my home in a small town called Cameron in rural North Carolina, working on my book The Darkness rises, crappy title I know, but it conveys the point of the story. Anyways, that’s not really the point of this. So it is storming pretty heavily outside and I can see the wood-line with every flash of lightning. Most of the night, when I looked out my window, there was nothing there, but around 11, my eyes were burning from staring at the computer screen for the past four hours, so I decided to take a break for a few minutes. I was looking out my window into the back yard, when a bolt of lightning struck in the sky that lit up the entire area surrounding me. At the edge of the woods I saw something… I don’t know what it was but from what I saw it was large, I couldn’t see any details and by the time I could focus my eyes on whatever it was, it was gone. I’m going to bed now, it must have been my eyes strained from the computer screen. 10 February 2012 - 0730 I woke up a few minutes ago; well one would of have to been asleep to wake up. Needless to say, after that thing last night I didn’t get a lick of sleep. I am going to investigate after I finish here, hopefully I will not find anything, hopefully I was too tired and my eyes are playing tricks on me. Anyways logging off for now, and I will see you soon. 10 February 2012 – 0930 So I just got back from the woods behind my house, there was nothing there. I know to most that doesn’t sound that strange, but there are a large number of animals there and there is NOTHING! Deer, Squirrels, etc, no tracks, nothing. I probably went about a mile back and didn’t find anything. Well maybe the rain caused the animals to leave for a bit and the rain washed away the tracks… I don’t know but maybe I am just over thinking everything. Anyways I have work to do; this is probably the last entry I will be making. Look for The Darkness Falls next spring lol. 20 February 2012 Hi everybody, it’s been ten days since my last entry. There was another storm last night and I swear that I saw it again, through my open window, I saw it… I don’t know what it is/was but it was big I was able to shine my flashlight on it, all I saw was white, then it vanished. It didn’t move it was simply there one second and gone the next. But even stranger than that… I swear that over the rain I heard the creepiest whistling sound. It made me shiver down to my very bones. Needless to say sleep did not come for me, so I got up around 7. I don’t know what I was thinking but I decided to go into the woods again. I entered the woods, and wondered around for a couple of hours, and I saw something I think. I was probably a mile or two back and there in the clearing in front of me was something I don’t know what it was but it was big. It was mostly white, but had a large black stripe running up its back, covering his shoulders. I will draw it to the best of my ability and upload it later. The strangest thing about it though was that its feet were completely backwards. As I stood there it turned and looked at me, it was smiling, not like a normal smile but one that stretched from ear to ear, much like that internet meme Jeff the killer but much wider, again I will post a crudely drawn picture. But anyways it looked at me and without moving its lips/mouth whatever you
could call it, I heard the same whistling that I heard last night, but this time it was loud and it felt like my skull was going to split open. I fell to my knees and clinched my ears. I felt its presence right above me but when the sound had stopped I looked up and it was gone. Again there were no tracks anywhere… well from what I could see, needless to say I didn’t stay there long. I ran all the way back home. I am not going back out there EVER! I don’t know what it was and I don’t care anymore. I’m done for now.
21 February 2012- Hand-drawn picture of the Whistling man
25 February 2012 – 2300 I haven’t slept since I saw that thing which I am now calling the whistling man. I literally cannot sleep, every time I close my eyes all I can see and hear is that… that thing whistling. I haven’t physically seen it since that day in the woods, but I don’t know… It’s a weird feeling, but I know that it’s there watching me wherever I am. At home I can feel its dark eyes on me, I can’t hide from it. That grin, smile is etched into my memory. I close my eyes and I see it. I am taking a strong dose of sleeping medicine tonight, I hope I can get some sleep before I go crazy. 26 February 2012 – 1000 I woke up this morning and there was this note taped to my computer monitor... I don’t remember writing it and it wasn’t there before I went to sleep last night... the funny thing about it all is that I slept amazingly last night for the first time in weeks. I had no dreams but apparently I got up and wrote this note it is my hand writing but I have no recollection of it. Anyways I have training for a new job in a couple of hours. Hopefully all of this will be in the past... as for the letter I’m putting with the rest of the shit that I have collected over the past few weeks.
-Transcribers note- Actual letter referenced in above entry
TRANSCRIBER NOTE So I talked to the family of the missing man about the letter I posted earlier. They told me that the language was something completely out of character for him. Also I was told that everything I am transcribing was shown to the police... evidently the police disregarded it all saying it was the words of a mad man. UPDATE- I am told that the police have stopped all investigation into the missing man stating that he was insane and probably got lost in the woods looking for the so-called "whistling man" the investigation will resume if and when a body is found... the family is distraught. That being said I will continue to transcribe the letters and diary entries of this now condemned man... 25 March 2012 I am officially turning over a new leaf and forgetting about this stuff about the whistling man. I think that I have merely had a lapse of sanity and imagined everything it’s been nearly a month and I haven’t had the feelings of being watched, I haven’t seen anything strange, work is going good, and I have been sleeping great with no bad dreams or anything. Life, for the first time in months, is good and hopefully I won’t be writing here anymore! 30 April 2012 It’s been a couple of months since my last entry and its started again but this time it’s been worse. I, again feel like I am being watched but this time... this time... this time it’s feels violent I know that it’s hard to explain but I feel like it wants to hurt me. Now unlike before I feel it’s eyes on me everywhere at home, at the store no matter where I am it’s there breathing down my fucking neck. I’m back to not sleeping at night I don’t know how much more I can take before I go completely bat-shit crazy. 5 June 2012 I’m fucking pissed, I lost my damn job this afternoon, the fucking boss told me that my paranoia was making him and my co-workers nervous and as such they could no longer keep me employed. Apparently my current problems with this fucking thing... nobody cares about me they are too worried that I am going to go crazy and kill everybody. I wouldn’t kill just anybody but the whistling man, I’m going to find him and I’m going to FUCKING KILL HIM! I just got back home from the gun store... I bought a shotgun... a high capacity semi-automatic shotgun. It’s too late now but I’m going to go out first thing in the morning... I’m going to end this, either I die or he does... to my family, I love you I’m sorry that all of this happened, I never wanted it. I loved my life before the whistling man came into it. I still have no idea WHY it came to me, but it has ruined my life. Again I love you and I hope beyond everything that I will see you again... this is good bye, for now. TRANSCRIBER NOTE
Unfortunately I don’t know what happened because that was the last entry that I could find. I am going back to his house to look again but I don’t really have hope to find anything else, but who knows I might get lucky... I’m just praying that the family will let me back in I would say that they would because it seems that I am the only one that even cares anymore. Anyways we will see tomorrow we I drive back down to Cameron, NC. I will keep you updated! Talk to you soon. -UPDATE- I decided to show the family what I have so far to see what they have to say about his manner of speaking and to get some insight on him and his personality. -TRANSCRIBER ENTRY #1So it’s about 1 in the morning and I just got back from Cameron. Everything went pretty good and I do have news to report! The family told me that I was welcome anytime I need to come that I had free reign over his room until either the police solve his disappearance or I do. Which is good for me. I showed them the transcribed notes and they were shocked. They told me that Josh was raised as a Christian and that cussing was something that he never did. No-one had ever said anything about him using foul language. I find it compelling because in the early entries there was no language of any sort, not even an "ass" or a "damn" it’s not till the appearance of the "whistling man" that he begins his use of language and even then it wasn’t horrible language until the final few entries. I want to be clear that there were more entries than I transcribed, that being said I only transcribed entries that I thought were strange and pertaining to Josh ’s disappearance. None of these other entries contained a single use of "dirty" language so it is defiantly something to think about. -TRANSCRIBER ENTRY #2Ok so I searched his room again, and I found a flash drive. I can’t believe that I missed the first time I was in here, but I don’t know what would be on it but anything that pertains to the "whistling man" I will be sure to post ASAP. Will post again after I examine the contents of the aforementioned flash drive. -TRANSCRIBER ENTRY #3I just finished looking at the flash drive and there were a few things pertaining to this "investigation" but it’s all stuff that I have already posted various hand drawn artwork of the whistling man, nothing major of note. Unfortunately without anymore to go on this investigation is now concluded... I’m sorry to end it like this with no closure but I have no choice. You will be there first to know if and when something new comes up, until then goodbye. -TRANSCRIBER ENTRY #4It’s been about a week since my last entry and I officially have news. The police have found the body of Josh. He was in the woods about a mile and a half from his home. This is strange because there was a police comb of those woods that went 4 miles back. I went to Cameron to
give my condolences to his family, and they gave me a package that was left on their doorstep that morning. As I looked at it I was dumbfounded; it was more entries from Josh but these came from the days in which he was missing. I will transcribe these and post them soon.
-12 June 2012I’ve been in the woods for a week now and I can’t find him. I know he’s there; I can hear the whistling, but it’s almost impossible to track him. Every time I think I am getting close to him...he...I don’t fucking know, it’s like he teleports. But I am determined to find him. -25 June 2012Sleep doesn’t come anymore. I haven’t slept in 2 weeks but I don’t fucking care anymore. I continue my search for the Whistling Man pretty much 24 hours out of the day. I know that it won’t be much longer before I find it...I pray to God that I have the strength to finish this...I don’t know if I can. I feel weak, the woods, they move, I see things that I can’t explain: people walking around with lights. I hide from them; I don’t want them to find me…I don’t know who they are but if they see me they will stop me from doing what needs to be done. I’m hiding in a tree…nobody ever looks up. Going to try and get some sleep. I know that it won’t come but all the same… -15 July 2012I haven’t seen the people in some time…I still haven’t slept since the last time…it’s strange that I have not left these woods but my phone still has a charge. I don’t have a signal but I still have 50% battery life…on an iPhone…I’m confused but at least I can still date these entries. I still hear that whistling. It’s so loud but it’s like it comes from everywhere, so I can’t track it…I am seeing this symbol carved into the trees. It’s a circle with 4 lines coming from it, with a downward arrow on top…I think that it is the symbol for the whistling man…at least I hope it is, because that means I am getting close. -NO DATEMy phone finally died…I don’t know what day it is and I am officially lost. No matter what I do, I always find the same large tree with an eerie clear patch encircling it. The tree is huge with some limbs as big as my body, and engraved in its bark…deep into its bark, is that symbol. A circle and 4 lines emerging from it, with a downward arrow on top…I have decided to climb it to see where I am in relation to everything I know about these woods. -NO DATEI’m at the top and all I see is woods, as far as the eye can see. I don’t understand it, I have been in these woods before when I was young and they are not that deep…could I have crossed over
into another set of woods along the way? I don’t know but I have NO idea where I am…I think I am safe up here. I am going to try and get some sleep, it’s getting late, and it will be dark soon. -NO DATEI hear him moving below me. I think that I will try and end this quickly…I found a page in my notebook that I didn’t write…but there’s no time for that now. Now it’s time to end this…
-NO DATEThis is my final entry...I found him earlier...I shot him...six times at point blank range...didn’t give him the chance to turn around...he just...turned...and he...he smiled at me. He stared at me...I was in shock. 6 shells of buck shot and nothing fucking happened! He started to whistle...I, I fell to my knees and screamed. It...it was the most intense pain I have ever felt in my life...I coughed up blood...I felt it coming out of my nose...and my...my ears. It was pouring out and I couldn’t do anything to stop it...I was paralyzed. My knees gave way and I was lying on the ground bleeding uncontrollably and it was standing over me. I could see his feet…his backwards feet standing beside me whistling...it felt like an eternity and truth be told I have no idea how long it was. But finally he just disappeared and it was over...and I was left in a pool of my own blood...I have never seen so much blood. In my final moments I jot this down to let you know what happened to me...to my family I love you all so much and I am so sorry for all of this and I tried to finish it. Good bye to you all... -TRANSCRIBER NOTE That’s it; there is nothing more. I hope that he gets the rest that he could no longer find in the end. I don’t have any more information. If I hear anything new I’ll tell you, but this is probably my final note. Good bye and I am sorry for the lack of answers. I know something is in the woods of Cameron, North Carolina, but I don’t know what it is, and I hope I never find out. -FINAL UPDATE I spoke to the police today and they told me that his body was nearly drained of blood. They have no explanation for what happened to him, but they told me that it was the strangest and most gruesome thing that they have ever seen. Apparently that’s it; the whole thing will be swept under the rug. I left the police station and it was the strangest thing, I could have sworn that I heard somebody whistling... must be my imagination...