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The Doclopedia #1,902
State Secrets: Illinois – The Ghosts In The Darkness
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In the Field Museum in Chicago, you can see the mounted specimens of the two male lions that killed many men, eating some of them, near the construction of a bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya in 1898. They terrorized the area for nearly a year, bringing construction to a halt. A very good movie titled “The Ghost and the Darkness” was made about it and released in 1996.
The problem is that shortly after the movie came out, the number of people going to the museum to see the two tigers jumped dramatically. That triggered…something. X Unit scientists are not sure what was triggered, but whatever it was, it summoned up the spirits of the two lions. On December 19th, 1996, they made their first kill 4 blocks away from the museum. The still unidentified homeless man was torn to pieces. No tracks were found, but several other homeless people nearby swore that they heard a lion roar.
Since that night 21 people have been killed across northern Illinois, mostly in the Chicagoland area. 13 of those killed were homeless, 5 were early morning outdoor workers, 2 were police officers and 1 was a tourist. The FBI X Unit has a team of parapsychologists on full alert in Chicago, but so far, they have had little success in figuring out how to stop the lions.
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The Doclopedia #1,903
State Secrets: Indiana – The Phantom Geek
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This next state secret is not a killer, but it is rather tragic. It’s also one that we know pretty much the whole story about.
In 2003, the GenCon gaming convention moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Indianapolis, Indiana. A young college student named Louis Hart was very excited about that. The 20 year old Hart, an avid roleplayer since he was 9 years old, had never been able to go to the convention in Milwaukee, but now, the con was right here in his home town.
According to friends and family, Louis hardly stopped talking about the con from the moment her heard about the move until he spoke his last words. On the morning of the first day of the convention, as his friends and he drove past the convention center, Louis said “I can’t believe I’m finally going to GenCon”, then promptly died from a heart attack. His friends drove him to a nearby hospital, but it was too late.
Fast forward one year later and his friends were back at the con to “roll the dice and buy some games in his memory”. And then, about 2 minutes after they walked through the door Bob Zane, childhood best friend of Louis, sees him walking along toward the Dealer’s Room.
As you might expect, Bob freaked out and when he pointed Louis out, so did the other three friends. They ran toward Louis, only to see him disappear. Rather terribly scared, they panicked and called 911. Naturally, the 911 dispatcher wrote them off as crank callers, but all 911 calls are monitored discreetly by the Special X Unit. Within an hour, there were two agents talking to Bob and his pals. After the interview, they told the young folks that they most likely had a hallucination brought on by stress. The four admitted that it was possible. They then had a great two days at the con until they saw Louis again, this time standing and watching a card game tournament. They then left the con at a high rate of speed and have never been back.
Over the years, Louis has been seen many times, including by FBI agents and security cameras. He appears solid, but cannot speak and cannot interact with material objects. He often looks rather sad, probably because he cannot play or buy games.
At GenCon in 2020, the special X Unit is going to try to make contact with Louis and help him play a game of D&D. They hope this might be enough to send him on his way in the afterlife.
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