The popular perception of Millennials as culturally bankrupt philistines incapable of making anything useful doesn’t give them a fair shake. Braving the dank bowels of the web reveals that the extremely online generation has pioneered a new art form: the sharing of spook stories through formularized posts. This medium has developed its own rules and customs. Think of it as sharing digital campfire tales.
Now, Zoomers have taken their elders’ art form and adapted it for the post-literate age. Searching YouTube for “creepypasta” and “greentext stories” will turn up post-Ground Zero folklore adapted into video format with the help of text-to-speech software.
Sturgeon’s rule about the quality of any medium’s content holds true here. Spend a few idle hours wading through 4chan /x/ thread narrations, and you’ll find no shortage of spooky stories featuring such classic horrors as glowing orbs, women being forced to interact with unattractive men, and deer.
Within the other 10 percent, though, you’ll find some buried gems.
One recent creepy video took the novel approach of presenting, not a Reddit skinwalker thread, but government case files that tie into the most-read post on this blog.
Make sure you’re alone and have good OpSec, and watch Chass’ presentation of “The Finders: Behind the Suits and Secrecy”.
Steel yourself and watch it now:
Some highlights from the FBI files:
The police had received an anonymous telephone call (relating to) two well-dressed white men wearing suits and ties in Myers Park, (Tallahassee), apparently watching six dirty and unkempt children in the playground area. HOULTHAN and AMMERMAN were near a 1980 Blue Dodge van bearing Virginia license number XHW-557, the inside of which was later described as foul-smelling, filled with maps, books, letters, and with a mattress situated to the rear of the van which appeared as if it were being used as a bed, and the overall appearance gave the impression that all eight persons were living in it.
A short time later, this office was contacted by Detective Ji Bradley of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. Bradley indicated that the case here in Tallahassee appeared to be strongly related to a case he was currently working on in the Washington D.C. area.
He stated that the actions of the two men in custody in Tallahassee, along with the children, just might give his case enough probable cause for search warrants to serch premises occupied by a cult group called the FINDERS.
Upon contacting Detective Bradley, I learned that he had initiated an investigation on the two addresses provided by the Tallahassee Police Dept. during December of 1985. An informant had given him information regarding a cult, known as the “Finders” operating various businesses out of a warehouse located at 1307 4th St., N.E., and were supposed to be housing children at 3918/3920 W St., N.W. The informant was specific in describing “blood rituals” and sexual orgies involving children, and an as-of-yet unsolved murder in which the Finders may be involved.
Not observed by me, but relayed by an MPD officer, were intelligence files on private families who weren’t related to the Finders. The process undertaken appears to have been a systematic response to local newspaper advertisements for babysitters, tutors, etc. A member of the Finders would respond (to those ads), and gather as much information as possible about the habits, identity, occupation, etc. of the family. The usage of this information is still unknown.
The individual further advised me of circumstances which indicated the the investigation into the activity of the Finders had become a CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified as secret and was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior, and that the FBI Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise the FBI Washington Field of anything that has transpired. No further information will be made available. No further action will be taken.
“A kick in the pants to those who are still drifting along, sedated by nostalgia”
