Entry #2: What Was The Conjure Quake Event?

Okay, we've all heard the same bullshit "official story" about what happened on Conjure Mountain during The Conjure Quake Event, but everything I've seen about it... it doesn't add up. Eyewitness accounts, timelines, even what people reported it smelled like at the base of the mountain... none of it matches.. it just doesn't add up. I've read newspaper articles, I've read journal entries from people who were there that day, I've interviewed Burdale residents and heard the stories that were passed down by their grandparents... but the most damning of all was a journal entry written by Henry Abbott - one of the sheriff's deputies who died just two days after it all went down. The entry was dated October 21, 1864 - in the late evening after The Event. According to Henry... it was an alien space ship.

Now, I've done EXTENSIVE research, and it turns out there are two other towns on Earth that experienced weird, unexplained phenomena on October 21, 1864 - The Village of Swansong in the UK, and The Town of Ängsstad in Sweden. All extremely similar seismic events, though there were no official (or unofficial) reports of an alien ship being found or recovered. Maybe you're reading this, thinking "okay Whispers, but seismic activity happens on Earth all the time and it could just be a coincidence", and yeah I hear you. BUT what if I told you those two towns also experienced another seismic event along with a giant beam of light protruding out of their respective forests exactly fifty years later? Can't be coincidence. So based on all of my research, including interviews with people in Burdale, as well as interviews with residents of Swansong and Ängsstad, this is what I think happened that day in 1864:

On October 21, 1864, in the skies above Earth, an alien spacecraft that could travel interdimensionally experienced a malfunction resulting in a crash. During the crash, the damage to the ship’s technology must have caused a phenomenon which bridged three parallel timelines together. In each of these alternate timelines, I think the craft went down in a different location on the planet; 

1. In The Town of Burdale in the United States

2. In The Village of Swansong in the UK

3. In The Town of Ängsstad in Sweden
   

My theory is that this has created Interdimensional Artifacts in each of the towns - ever wonder how the fuck there ruins of an ancient European style castle on Crown Rock? And then according to a Swansong resident who goes by the alias of Rufus whom I spoke to recently, there's an exact copy of The Crown Tree atop Pike Hill in Swansong. His great-grandfather always said that massive tree literally showed up "overnight".

Subsequently, in Swansong and Ängsstad there have been sightings of creatures that match the description of The Wildwood Man, as well as sighting s of what seems to be members of uncontacted natives (two topics I will cover in another blog entry) in their forests. That's not even mentioning the other parallel and/or connected happenings, one very notable being The Light Beam Incident. They also seem to have their own parallel versions of The Witch Lady, Mr. Trenchcoat, and other unique people that we know in Burdale. These things are all somehow mirrored within three completely different towns, in completely different countries, because of something that I believe happened in three parallel timelines.

The spacecraft crashed on what we call Witch's Landing - why do we call it that? Is it because The Witch Lady arrived in the spaceship? Is she the alien? I'm not saying that's what happened - I'm just asking questions. Whatever way you want to look at it, there's a connection there - once again, I'll cover this in a different blog entry.

Do I believe there was a collapse in the coal mine - yes, absolutely. But I believe the spaceship crash is what caused it, not some fissure in the mountain and a gas leak. As we all learned in school, the 23 miners who were trapped in the mine after the collapse all died of starvation and injury - totally sucks. That said, I think the government uses their deaths as a shield to keep us from asking the tough questions. Like what happened to The Sickened Seven? Why did they die? Why haven't we ever gotten any real answers with evidence or a scientifically backed explanation? To provide context for those who aren't familiar with the story of The Sickened Seven (they skip that part in school), here it goes:

After the ship's impact on Conjure Mountain, The Never County Sheriff, his four deputies, a school teacher named Arthur Myers, the widow to a miner who died in the collapse - her name was Birdie Baker (I believe she is The Witch Lady), and the local barkeep Barty Aldrich (I believe this is the same man who barkeeps The Burdale Bar to this day) climbed the treacherous trail to the peak to investigate. They supposedly found the mountain fissure and later became sick due to exposure to the natural gasses leaking from it.

Henry's journal entry says they made it to the top and found the scene of a massive collision where, among the vaporized bushes and scorched earth, they discovered a crashed spaceship that was holding an alien body. He mentioned they weren't sure whether it was dead or alive and that the sheriff swore them to secrecy and that if they said anything about what they saw, it could cause a panic among the rest of the town.

According to Henry, the sheriff returned to the Station to contact state authorities while his deputies closed off the trail. I believe this is when he was ordered by someone to instruct his deputies to assure the townsfolk that a methane gas explosion caused by a fissure in the rock was the cause of the mine collapse. Less than 24 hours after the crash, a team made up of Union AND Confederate government officials arrived and took over the mountain, which caused a heavy stir among the townsfolk - one blurry photo from this meeting has been uncovered, but our experts at The Burdale Historical Association claim they can't verify it's authenticity - I think that's bullshit and they're aiding in the cover up. Anyways, by the end of that week, construction began on a facility on the adjacent mountain, Specter Ridge. Once completed, all remnants of the crash are said to have been moved there in secret. The building's door is marked with a unique eight-pointed star.

The sheriff and the six others, known to true Burdale Historians as The Sickened Seven, all came down with a sickness in the days following the crash. Only Barty, Birdy, and Glenn Bank (a sheriff's deputy, and the alleged great-great grandson of current Never County Sheriff) survived.

Okay so a few journal entries, a blurry photo of mingling confederate and union soldiers, and correspondence between residents of three countries detailing some incredible coincidences aren't enough to convince you? Well, what if I told you an artifact was recovered? That's right. A single piece of metallic material, a circular item with roughly an 8" circumference, was discovered at the base of the mountain by Emma Myers, the wife of Arthur Myers (the school teacher). Keeping this futuristic cog-like item a secret, she concealed it in her coat and went home, waiting for her husband to return. According to a 1882 letter from her son Philip to his cousin Anne, when Arthur arrived home later that night, he broke the vow of silence he made to the sheriff and told his wife everything he saw on Conjure Mountain. She showed him the piece she discovered and they agreed that it must have come from the same craft. Within days, Arthur was dead from the sickness. It wasn't easy, it wasn't cheap, but I've acquired a copy of this letter, which I've uploaded to the Wildwood Whispers photo gallery. Much like Henry Abbott, this account also claims it to have been an alien spaceship.

The piece of wreckage was passed down through the next few generations of the Myers family until the death of Nelson Myers in 1962 when his oddity shop, The Spiral Staircase, burned down (I believe the fire was deliberate and he was murdered, though I haven't figured out the connection yet). Nelson's only son, William (who was only a baby), was never found and presumed dead in the fire. Now, The Burdale Historical Association museum stands in the oddity shop's place, and unbeknownst to most, the museum has it. They have the piece of wreckage. Sarah (one of the founders, who manages the day-to-day of the museum) says she thinks the story is a bunch of bullshit but she still keeps the item hidden in the archive room. I know it's real. Why else would she keep it? As far as I'm concerned, nobody in their right mind can honestly deny this evidence of what really happened on Conjure Mountain on October 21, 1864. I'm trying to figure out how to convince Sarah to display it.