The Pale Men

My grandfather showed me a lot of things before he passed away, back in '93. He showed me things that I almost wished I hadn't seen. He showed me evidence that's completely irrefutable; evidence I cannot in good conscience show anyone - and wouldn't be able to, not unless I could take them to the spot my grandfather brought me to.

But he also left me some photographs he took. My grandfather was an avid photographer - with a taste for the esoteric - and he spent his whole life on Solomon Island, searching for evidence to the things he knew were real.

Like this photograph, which was taken in 1986.

My grandfather called them the Pale Men. They have also been called Nábleikr. They came from the sea, and they were first brought here by what I guess would be Vikings - a long time ago. According to my research, it would have been around 900 or 1000 AD, when Norsemen were rumored to have visited North America. Most vanished when the Vikings left, but some stayed behind - in the dark, cold water, waiting for...something? Someone? Occasionally they will rise up to the surface, go on land, searching... That's how my grandfather got this photograph.

He never told me what happened next.