Location 059MV

 So, this is one story from The Agency that I'm exceptionally proud of for two main reasons: it's one of the longer ones and because of the character development present through it. Because it's on the longer side, I'll only post an excerpt of it, but may post other excerpts from this one later on. 

Anyway, enjoy a trip to the marvelously entertaining and exceptionally fun amusement park, Midnight Village. You'll never want to leave and in some cases, you never will. I present to you, "Location 059MV." 

Location 059MV

Location Description & History

Location 059MV is an amusement park known as Midnight Village which is composed of two smaller sections, Terror Land and Lunafair (Location 059MV-TL and Location 059MV-L, respectively), as well as waterpark section known as Underwater Realm (Location 059MV-UR) which was added in 2008. Terror Land has more intense thrill rides such as drop towers and intense roller coasters as well as scarier decorations as it is clearly geared toward a more mature audience. Lunafair is very kid-friendly, moon-themed, and has an Asian-feel to it with Chinese lanterns, a person in an Asian-inspired outfit with rabbit ears that hands out mooncakes, and Asian cuisine.

            Location 059MV contains the following rides and attractions: The Comet, Star Wheel, Cliffhanger, The Mammoth, The Vault, and The Pendulum. Location 059MV-L has the Tunnel of Wishes, Dragon Mountain, The Octopus, and the Star Bridge as well as the Zodiac, a carousel with horses, dragons, oxen, sheep, pigs, and tigers to ride on while the carousel is decorated with the animals from the Eastern Zodiac: dragons, mice, oxen, horses, sheep, roosters, dogs, rabbits, monkeys, tigers, snakes, and pigs. Location 059MV-UR has Island Loop, The Wipeout, The Wave, Plunge, Fortune Rapids, The Typhoon, The Kraken, and Expedition Ocean. Location 59MV-TL has Blade Plunge, The Broken Obelisk, Punishment Manor, and Loop of Chains.

Most incidents occur in Location 059MV and Location 059MV-TL, however Location 059MV-L still has a few occurrences on the record. Location 059MV-UR, despite being new, has had several incidents, though many of them can be and usually are attributed to ride malfunctions. Of course, these are still suspect due to the park’s history. As the park is still in operation, there are many testimonies and that number continues to grow.

            Location 059MV is still in operation as there is not enough evidence to encourage the owners to sell it or close it. Instead, they have worked things out with the Agency so that custodians act as security for the park to keep unusual incidents to a minimum and guarantee that those who witness the incidents sign nondisclosure agreements and provide statements to the Agency so there is a record. The custodians working in Location 059MV are allowed to bring their family to work for free admittance so as to keep up the appearance of working for Location 059MV.

            As of yet, support team Omicron researchers have not uncovered anything that would lead to a cause for the occurrences such as hauntings or building on cursed land. They are still looking into the property records and the history of the land as well as the history of Location 059MV to see if there were any deaths that occurred while the park was under construction.

            Thanks to information from an inside source, we have learned there are at least eight separate entities that call Location 059MV home. The Executioner seems to be in charge and stays primarily in Location 059MV-TL, along with the Gentle Prisoner, the newest of the entities and the one about whom the least is known. Location 059MV-L has the Rabbit who preys on children, specifically twins, and the Twins, who stay in the Tunnel of Wishes and are counted as one entity. Location 059MV proper has the skull-headed Jester who enjoys causing “pranks” and Eternal Jenny, who little is known about though she seems particularly active on Valentine’s Day. The addition of Location 059MV-UR has brought forth the entities Tick Tack who slices victims in waterslides and Wet Willy who is active around The Wave, Island Loop, and Fortune Rapids and drowns people.

            Location 059MV also has a few resort hotels, though as of yet there have been no incidents involving entities in these hotels. The hotels are still being carefully monitored, however.

Testimony 1999-06-12

Arch. Fuller: Statement of Mason Griffith regarding unusual occurrences at Location 059MV otherwise known as Midnight Village during the park’s construction in 1997. Recorded direct from subject by Archivist Kris Fuller.

Griffith: Everyone who worked on the park had to sign nondisclosure agreements, you know. We all agreed not to talk about what happened there to anyone. Not our family, not the cops, no one. Well, I’m not gonna live much longer so I thought it would be a good idea to give you a record of what happened there before I kick the bucket.

            I wasn’t among the first group that started working there. I came on after they broke ground and had up a few of the rides. I didn’t give much thought to the NDA. My ex had needed to sign some before and, while it wasn’t normal for someone in my line of work to sign one, I signed it. I needed the job.

            Things went well enough. I showed up to work, did what I needed to do, went home at the end of the day, got my paycheck at the end of the week. It was like a normal job. I didn’t know why there was a nondisclosure agreement, but I didn’t care. As long as I got paid, it was fine.

            It was my second week when I first heard the laughter. I was over by the Tunnel of Wishes in Lunafair, working on the track. Obviously, this was before the water was added. I stopped when I heard it and called, “Hello? Anyone there?” There was, predictably, no answer. I yelled out, “You’re trespassing. Leave or I’ll call the police.” The laughter stopped and I went back to work. I didn’t give it much more thought. Then it started again. Again, I yelled that if they didn’t leave, I’d call the cops. It stopped again and I went back to work.

            One of my coworkers, Bobby Lane, came over and asked about why I was yelling I’d call the cops. I told him about the laughter and he said he’d go in and set those kids straight. He went into the tunnel and I kept working. I could’ve gone in with him, but dealing with delinquents wasn’t my job. Wasn’t his either, but Bobby had a temper and no patience so I wasn’t that surprised he went in there.

I finished what I was doing and went to clock out. I let the boss—that’s Tyler Becker—know that Bobby went to go deal with a couple kids that were in the Tunnel of Wishes. He said he’d go check on Bobby and make sure he wasn’t too rough on the kids. I told him good luck and went home. When I came in the next day, I asked about Bobby and the kids. Tyler looked at me and said, “I shouldn’t be telling you this, but you’ll hear about it anyway and besides that the cops will likely want to talk to you. Bobby’s dead. Drowned, from what the cops said.”

Drowned. How could he have drowned? There was no water in the tunnel. No water in the whole park since they hadn’t gotten the plumbing in yet. He couldn’t have drowned, but that’s what happened, autopsy confirmed it. I told the cops what happened, that there were some delinquents in the tunnel and Bobby went in to kick them out, and I told them that I didn’t see the kids but I heard them. They investigated, didn’t find anything, pretty much wrote his death down to ‘natural causes,’ and life went on.

The laughter kept happening during the construction on the tunnel, right up until we added the water. We mostly ignored it. There were other things that happened. Motion sensitive lights would go on when there was nothing there. Minor things that could be explained away as technical errors, faulty wiring, bats or insects flying in front of the sensors on the lights. Nothing major. All easy to ignore and brush off. As long as I kept getting paid, I didn’t care.

Then, Sean May fell while building the Blade Plunge in Terror Land. Daxton Bradley who was working with him said that he didn’t fall, he was pushed. The cops looked at Daxton at first, thinking he pushed him, but evidence cleared him. Daxton told me and a few of the other coworkers that they were up there working on it and Sean just kinda lurched like he’d been shoved even though there was no one there that could shove him. Daxton said he wasn’t going back up there again and asked, practically begged, that he be moved to a different ride. Tyler agreed and said he’d work on the flat rides, probably The Vault which is something like an escape room in the main part of the park, Midnight Village proper, and needed more standard construction than ride construction.

He accepted the change in job and things went well right up until his third day working there when second shift found him locked in there, dead of dehydration. Now, I don’t know if you know this because I didn’t know it, but it takes three days without water before you die of dehydration. He was only there for a few hours. Cops came and talked to all of us, looked at the security cameras. Nothing. He was shown going in for work like normal, but then the camera feed goes weird, like it cuts out, and then comes back when they unlock the door and find Sean’s body.

After that, we all started working in areas together. At least two people in every stationary or non-coaster area and at least four people in coaster areas. We made sure we were never alone. Even if we just needed to take a leak, we went in pairs. We never went anywhere alone. We never made ourselves easy targets for whatever it was that was after us.

That didn’t matter. It still picked us off.

When we moved on to The Broken Obelisk in Terror Land, there were three deaths. Enrique Santiago and Benson Greer were killed by snapped cables once the ride was put together and being tested. Before that, though, there was Zain Newman who apparently hung himself from one of the metal support beams. We were all glad when it was finished and we could move on to a different ride.

Look, I could sit here all week telling you about every person who died while we were building that damned place. You can get the autopsy records, the real ones. I don’t doubt that your agency can get ahold of those. You can probably get the police records too. I mean, your agency seems like it could get its hands on just about anything if they wanted it badly enough. You all probably have more pull than the owner of the park and more influence over the police and medical examiners than I even want to think about. You’ll know everything about how they were found, what the autopsy shows, and all that. I’ll tell you what you want to know. The one that made me quit.

I was over in Punishment Manor, helping put the finishing touches on it. It’s sort of like a haunted house kind of set up. You know, something like what Disney World’s got. My work partner, Kellan Oliver, must have finished up and left without letting me know. We weren’t working nearby at that point. We’d given up on thinking we’d be safe in groups. At that point, we knew that if whatever was hunting us wanted us dead, it would get us. Didn’t matter if we were alone, in a group, daytime or nighttime. If it wanted us, it would get us. So I was alone, but that was fine. I put the finishing touches on one of the decorations, a rack, and went to leave the dungeon.

There was someone there, dressed in a black hood. They looked like an executioner. I tried to speak to them, but they didn’t say anything. Then, they raised their arm and I blacked out. I woke up five days later, though to me it felt like I’d just blinked or maybe just taken a nap for a couple hours. I don’t know what happened, honestly, but when I woke up, I was naked. Kellan and Tyler found me and took me to the hospital. I had several broken bones, stab wounds, slashes, burns, scars…I was a wreck. I’d been tortured, but I didn’t remember any of it. Apparently, people had heard me screaming and thought it was just part of the general strangeness of the park. Kellan just happened to find me that day and got me out of there. He said it was kinda like what happened with Sean, except to me it felt like one day when it had been five at least.

While I was in the hospital, I told Tyler I quit. I wasn’t going back there. No way in Hell. He told me he understood and he’d send me my last paycheck, including pay for the five days I was missing since I hadn’t been clocked out during that time and was still at the park thus was technically where I was supposed to be during that time. The owner of the park, don’t know his name, showed up while I was in the hospital and reminded me I signed a nondisclosure agreement then offered a small fortune and to pay for my medical bills. I agreed to that, but said the money is to be put in a trust for my daughters, Amy and Abigail. He agreed and set it up then and there.

I’m never going back there. Not even to visit, not even with my kids who want to go there. I won’t let them go there. I warned my wife, Sophia, against that place, but didn’t tell her what happened. My kids don’t understand that I’m afraid of that place, but I’m not going back and I’m not letting them go there either. I’ve left all this in a letter to my wife to be delivered along with my will at the time of my death so that she’ll know why I won’t let them go. I need to protect them from that place, if it’s the last thing I do.

Arch. Fuller: Statement ends. Mr. Griffith left after giving the statement and died shortly after. He was found in the dungeon of Punishment Manor with clear signs of having been tortured. Clearly, he didn’t survive this round in the park, though that does beg the question of why he would go back to the park in the first place as he made it perfectly clear he wanted nothing to do with that place.

Testimony 2000-05-15

Arch. Fuller: Statement of Amber Marshall regarding her experience at Location 059MV and the disappearances of Paige Wilkinson, Max Reeves, Brooke Jones, Tripp Roman, and Seth and Luca Shaw on the second of May. Recorded direct from subject by Archivist Kris Fuller.

Marshall: I can’t believe they’re gone. They were there and then…gone. It was stupid of us. There was no reason for us to do it, but we were bored and figured it’d be kinda cool. Sneak into the park after hours, ride a couple rides, maybe have a few beers, smoke a little pot. You know, just harmless fun. Teenage crap. Unwinding since finals had ended and we were all ready for summer.

            We didn’t want to take Luca. Sure, he’s an okay kid, but he’s a kid. God. He’s just twelve. Anyway, we didn’t want to take him, but he caught Seth sneaking out and threatened to tell their parents so Seth decided it would just be easier to take him with us. He reasoned that we could all ride some rides then he could be a lookout for us while we drank and smoked.

            It was around midnight when we got in there, so I guess it was May second. We decided to go for a ride first, before the drinking and all that. Immediately, we went to Terror Land. All of us were a bit too old for Lunafair and usually only went over there during hours for snacks because they had some of the best food.

            We decided Loop of Chains was the ride for us. Well, for them. One of us had to stay on the ground and man the controls. I wasn’t much of a fan of that coaster. I preferred Blade Plunge and the Broken Obelisk. Drop towers were just cooler than coasters. So I offered to stay and operate the controls. The others were fine with that.

They got in the train. Paige and Seth in the front, Max and Brooke behind them, and Tripp and Luca in the third row. I noticed…I noticed a track B. I told them about it and asked them if they wanted to try that one. They were all excited for it so I pressed it. I heard the grinding as it switched over to track B and the light was flashing red. Then, when the console lit up green, showing it was ready. I pressed the button and the train pulled away from the station. I watched them for a bit, then they disappeared behind one of the buildings. Punishment Manor, I think, or one of the shops over near it. That was the last time I saw them.

Ten minutes passed, then twenty. The cart never came back. I waited an hour before I couldn’t stand it anymore and I called the cops. They showed up quicker than I expected, probably only two minutes later, along with my parents and the owners of the park. I got my ass chewed out by my parents, grounded for the whole summer, then got threatened with trespassing by the police. The owners said they didn’t want to press charges. They just wanted the cops to find my friends and escort us off the property. Oh, and I was banned for a year.

They never found my friends.

After they found our pot and alcohol, they figured I must be high and drunk so I was imagining track B. The owner said that track B was almost the same as the regular run, just it got a little closer to the graveyard behind Punishment Manor. They didn’t listen to me when I said that it dipped behind the buildings over there. They checked the area, though. Nothing. They didn’t find anything and just wrote them as missing. They never found them.

One of your agents came to talk to me when I was at home while my folks were working. He asked if I’d been to the park and I told him that I had. He asked if I would give my statement to his agency, said that the lot of you were looking into it. I said that I’d do anything to help find my friends. He gave me this address and told me to come here to give a statement whenever I can manage.

So, that’s my statement. My friends rode track B and they were never seen again. I should get home before my parents find out that I’m not there. I hope my information helps you find them. Or their bodies. I just…I want to know what happened to my friends.

Arch. Fuller: Statement ends. Ms. Marshall is correct in that that particular coaster has a track B. The custodians that are in charge of monitoring Location 059MV have agreed to look for the teens while working. Given that the Agency and the owners of Location 059MV have an agreement, we should have more success locating the missing teens or, rather, the survivor.

There's the opening of "Location 059MV." Perhaps somewhere down the road, I'll share another couple excerpts from it. Even though it's concluded as of now, I may actually add one or two more testimonies to it since I enjoy playing around with the characters and setting. Besides, it's an amusement park that is still operational. And, as is pointed out in a later testimony in "Location 059MV" which may be shared, there's always more than one incident per year, but the agency only records one a year. 

For now, though, you're left with just the beginning of the longest entry in The Agency. Maybe next time I'll share a couple more testimonies or it'll be an entirely different excerpt.