Location 059MV part 5

 We're back with another excerpt from "Location 059MV" and this will be the final one from the park unless I decide to post the redacted ones or write more to this story, which would cover how Location 059MV dealt with a certain pandemic in 2020. For now, though, this is the final part. So kick back under an umbrella and try to beat the heat with a story to give you chills.

Location 059MV

Testimony 2012-06-02

Arch. Fuller: Statement of lifeguard Jacob Andrews regarding the drowning of Cameron Terrell in Location 059MV, recorded direct from subject by Archivist Kris Fuller.

Andrews: Please, call me Jake. Everyone does. Everything was fine. He was swimming in The Wave. Well, the mid-depth section. A lot of people do that. People always kinda swim around in that section, like how people swim around Island Loop. I mean, yeah, we always try to tell people no swimming, but that’s hard to enforce and it usually doesn’t end like this.

Anyway, things were going well. I was getting ready to end my shift. I saw a guy with long matted hair, dripping wet, standing in the middle of The Wave. I mean, yeah, makes sense he’d be dripping wet, right? But something seemed off about him. Like, he looked like he was just naturally wet all the time instead of it being from the water.

I took my eyes off him and went back to scanning the water, looking for any signs of drowning. Drowning isn’t like what you see in the movies. It’s quiet, subtle. It can happen when the person’s right next to someone and the person they’re beside will never notice. I saw Cameron, swimming in the mid-depth section. He stopped after a moment and stood, back turned to the deeper section where the waves originate. He was probably getting ready to body-surf his way back to shore since the waves were about to start.

The waves started and I noticed right away something was different. The waves were larger than normal. Still, I wasn’t worried. Sometimes the one who operates the waves makes big ones. Cameron was still going okay. Then I don’t know, maybe someone called his name, but he turned around to face the deep end right as the largest wave came barreling toward him. The man with matted hair was, and this is going to sound insane, but he was part of the wave, riding it like it was part of him and he was racing toward Cameron. He and Cameron collided and went under.

I blew the whistle, the waves slowly stopped, everyone went to get out of the water, and I got in. The other lifeguards also helped me look for Cameron. Then someone screamed. We went over to shore and there he was, lying on the shore, washed up by a wave. He was dead and it looked like he’d drowned days ago instead of a few minutes ago. Still, one of the others tried to do CPR while we radioed for an ambulance. The one who tried to do CPR cleared his airway and threw a glob of seaweed to the side. Seaweed. The only place we have seaweed is in the pools for Expedition Ocean and only official animal caretakers and tank cleaners are allowed in there. Where would he have gotten it? How?

One of them picked up the seaweed and tossed it in the trash before the EMTs got there. I demanded to know why they did that. They said that it wasn’t important. It didn’t contribute to the drowning. I mean, yeah, I can’t argue with that. Because I know he drowned in the water here, but the seaweed comes from Expedition Ocean and he looked like he’d been dead two days at least and he couldn’t have been.

I told the others about the man with the matted hair I’d seen. The others looked uncomfortable and said to drop it. I know your agency deals with weird things so I came here, hoping you’d take a statement and look into it. I just want justice for Cameron Terrell.

Arch. Fuller: Statement ends. I am surprised a lifeguard for Location 059MV-UR came to give a statement. It is usually in the policy that no one officially affiliated with Location 059MV or receiving any kind of financial support from Location 059MV will discuss matters with those outside the location. I don’t know if this means that the owner of Location 059MV considers us affiliated or if Mr. Andrews didn’t get the memo. I suppose if Mr. Andrews ends up dead, we’ll have our answer.

Arch. Fuller: Mr. Andrews was found in the water of Island Loop, drowned, on June fifth of this year. It would appear that he didn’t realize he wasn’t permitted to talk to outsiders.

Testimony 2014-09-23

Arch. Fuller: Statement of Esme Kennedy regarding the death of Nash Collins in Location 059MV-UR recorded direct from subject by Archivist Kris Fuller.

Kennedy: Okay, so I know that you’ve probably heard that he was drunk and not a strong swimmer, but he was part of the swim team in high school and college. He was also completely sober. He didn’t have any alcohol that day or any drugs. I’m sure of it. The autopsy report is wrong. I don’t know why, but the medical examiner is lying. I know I sound crazy and like, why would they lie since that’s illegal, but the report is wrong. He was sober and he was a strong swimmer. I don’t know why his parents would say he wasn’t. He trained to be a lifeguard, you know? They don’t let weak swimmers train to be lifeguards, do they?

            So, we went to the park and everything was great. We went on Fortune Rapids and Nash seemed edgy. I asked him what was up and he said that he felt watched and hunted. He told me that he kept seeing this guy with long, matted hair watching him. I said I hadn’t seen anyone like that and asked if there was anything else about him and Nash said that the guy looked kind of like his skin was actually a wetsuit. Like it had that kind of look, kind of like seal-skin, you know? I said that was weird and we left it at that. We avoided the Wave because neither of us were really in the mood for waves that day and decided to just float around the Island Loop for a little bit.

            We were floating around, all chill and everything, and then he sat up in the inner tube and looked around. He said he felt like he was being watched again. I told him there were plenty of people around and no one was really looking at him specifically. He said someone was watching him, he could feel it. I brushed it off and lounged in my tube. He gradually relaxed again. He sat up again, freaked out, a little while later and I got kind of annoyed when I asked him what. He said something touched his foot. I told him it was probably some stupid kid swimming and to chill out. He was less than happy with that and told me he was convinced it was the guy that had been watching him. I told him he was being paranoid and to knock it off. I pushed my tube away from him, annoyed and turned away from him. I…I wish I hadn’t. That was the last time I saw him alive, you see.

             I heard splashing behind me and when I turned around, he was floating face down in the water. I got out of the tube and went over to him, yelling for help. The lifeguard jumped in and went to him, pulled him out of the water and started CPR while another one called for a medic and held me back. The medics got there and carried him out of the park. I was about to call his parents when a security guard escorted me to the office and asked for their number. I gave it to him. I figured, you know, he expected me to be a wreck—and I was—and was going to talk to them instead so they’d understand more than my incoherent sobbing explanation. They were already at the hospital when I got there and told me he was gone. After hearing what they told the reporters and what the autopsy said, I knew I needed to go to someone with the truth. So I came here.

Arch. Fuller: Statement ends. As Ms. Kennedy said, the autopsy report released to the public is inaccurate. The actual report states cause of death to be drowning and asphyxiation due to seaweed in the mouth and also pieces in the lungs. There were also bruises on his head where he hit the bottom of the pool, but these were not severe enough to cause disorientation, unconsciousness, or concussions. We need more information about the entities and the best method would be, unfortunately, to talk to Shaw. Though, I suppose I could make an argument that we could send a few members of support team Omicron into the park to study them, but that presents its own problems as the entities have proven to be quite hostile. Of course, given that the Superior Read has some type of agreement with the Executioner, perhaps the entities would be less hostile in this case. I will make the suggestion to Superior Read and see what he says.

Testimony 2015-02-15

Arch. Fuller: Statement of Kerry Brooks regarding the disappearance of her boyfriend Cullen Carr in Location 059MV on Valentine’s Day, recorded direct from subject by Archivist Kris Fuller.

Brooks: I don’t know what could have happened. One minute, we were together on the Star Wheel, enjoying our date and then, when we got off, he was gone. I couldn’t find him anywhere. I asked security and they showed video of me arriving by myself and spending the day alone. I showed photos of him on my phone, photos that I’d taken that day of us, but in the ones taken that day, I was alone. The ones also showed me as alone, but I know he was there. I know he’s real and I know he disappeared there.

            After security didn’t help me, I called his parents to ask them if maybe he’d gotten home. They, they said they didn’t have a son and didn’t know who I was or why I was calling them. I started freaking out and they hung up after telling me not to call them again or they’d call the police. I called the police and they came to the park, talked to me, talked to security, looked at the security footage, and called my parents.

            My parents came to get me and apologized to the police and security, telling them that I’d recently had a prescription change and that it must be disagreeing with me. I started yelling at them, telling them that Cullen was real and he’d vanished and we had to find him. No one listened to me and my parents took me home.

            The owner of the park came by that evening and offered me a substantial sum if I would drop the topic of Cullen and sign a nondisclosure agreement. My parents urged me to take the money, pointed out that Cullen’s parents already had and they had too, and said that no one would believe me if all evidence pointed to Cullen not existing and if Cullen’s own parents denied he was real.

I refused. I love Cullen and I wasn’t going to stop until I found out what happened to him. I wasn’t going to just give up on him. I love him. My parents were furious, but the park owner just seemed…resigned, I guess. He just requested that I come speak to you today and said that he’d leave the nondisclosure agreement with my parents and I could make a decision after. I’m not signing it. I’m not taking the money. I want Cullen back more than I want that stupid money.

Arch. Fuller: Statement ends. Shortly after Ms. Brooks’ statement, a body matching her description of Cullen Carr—and identified by her as Mr. Carr—was found inside one of the gondolas of the Star Wheel. Autopsy reports ruled cause of death to be heart failure due to advanced age despite the fact that Mr. Carr was only seventeen at the time of his disappearance. According to Skye Vega, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy, the condition of Carr’s heart would not be out of place in someone in their late nineties. I wonder if Ms. Brooks decided to sign the NDA and take the money after all. 

Testimony 2017-03-19

Arch. Fuller: Statement of Jesse Dunn regarding a strange vision right before the Star Wheel incident in Location 059MV, recorded direct from subject by Archivist Kris Fuller.

Dunn: You’re not going to believe me. No one does. I don’t believe me. But I saw it. I was in the gondola with Macie Pratt and everything was good. Then, we get to the highest point and the Star Wheel jerks to a stop. The gondola sways wildly, then there’s a horrible creaking and suddenly, it’s hurtling towards the ground. Macie’s thrown from it and breaks her back on one of the bars. I stay in the gondola until it hits the ground, then it crushes me and I’m back in line, ready to board the gondola. I told Macie we shouldn’t ride it, but she wanted to and tried to pull me on there. I said no and I backed off. I got out of line and I watched as the gondola with Macie went up to the highest point, then it snapped free of the bolt holding it and crashed down. Macie was still thrown free and broke her back on the bar, but no one was killed by the gondola hitting the ground. I don’t know what happened. I just know that I saw it happen and I avoided dying that day. I just wish Macie had listened.

Arch. Fuller: Statement ends. The bolts holding the gondola in place were found to be corroded and that led to the gondola breaking free and plummeting to the ground. Mr. Dunn is being tested and examined by support team Psi to find out if this was a true prophecy or if it was due to one of the entities of Location 059MV, namely Eternal Jenny or the Jester.

As has been the pattern, the next few posts involving excerpts from The Agency will be parts from the longer ones. I'll be posting new entries from The Agency once they're written so keep checking back if you want a new spooky entry.