Original Mythos (Recorded Witness Hearing)

DATE: FEBRUARY 19TH, 1995
RECORDED WITNESS HEARING

1ST OFFICER: This is Officer Ian Tennisson, the time is… 00.17 February 19th. Recording of witness… Oliver Hodgeson… Regarding (pause) circumstances occurring earlier. Oliver… Will you cooperate and answer my questions?

HODGESON: (murmurs) Yes.

TENNISSON: Describe what happened leading up to the events.

HODGESON: I was driving home from work. The radio began to (pause) flicker and all I could hear was static (pause) over the static I heard (heavy breathing, unintelligible)

TENNISSON: Sobbing?

HODGESON: Yes (pause) I began feeling uncomfortable (unintelligible) skin crawling. I called home…

TENNISSON: Why?

HODGESON: I (stutters) I couldn’t tell you. I got a feeling…

TENNISSON: Your call home was recorded. Now playing Item 3C from the recording…

(A collection of ambient driving noises. A call is made. Ambient noises go on for about twenty-five seconds, before cutting out to the sound of hanging up on the other side.)

(silence)

(eventually)TENNISSON: How far were you from home after this call?

(silence)

TENNISSON: How fa(interrupted)

HODGESON: (panicked breathing) 5 minutes…

TENNISSON: And you drove straight home. What happened on arrival?

HODGESON: I saw(pause) I saw…

(unintelligible)

HODGESON: I… Can’t(breathing picks up pace, chair scuffling, loud crash)

ABRUPT END OF RECORDING.

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