The evidence

For those who don't believe me. For those who laugh at me... I have the evidence. And I will put it right here, where the world can see and judge for itself.

Soon.

The Conspiracy

I spoke up. Not because I wanted to. No, it was my DUTY to speak up and tell the truth. But they just yelled at me, called me "crazy", told me to sit down and shut up. How can I shut up when there's so much evidence?! I showed them everything. Everything! I don't understand why they don't see it, the truth. I guess they're blind, blinded by the FILTH they're fed from those who protect this town's secrets. Those who run this town, this island.

The sheriff, she's a good person but she's as blind as the rest of them, she has absolutely no idea what's going on right under her nose - Bannerman and her deputy both. The so-called "law". They're powerless and they are ignorant, just like the other "zombies" in this dying town.

The Pale Men will return. Not today, not tomorrow - but soon. I can FEEL them. I can smell them. They smell of brine and corruption, of the deep dark sea and of death, ancient restless death. The Pale Men are coming back and they will bring the poisoned mist with them, just as they did before, but this time there will be no protection, this time we won't be spared a watery grave by rituals and "good medicine".

This time they will drag us down, down, down into the black ocean where we will endure in cold pain and endless darkness for all eternity.

The Toad Woman

Local Wabanaki lore speaks of the Toad-Woman: Pook-jin-squis, a harbinger of evil. She roams the swamps and dark forests of the Northeast, and in her trail is just death and darkness. To see her is bad fortune. To photograph her, then, must be doubly so.

This might not be the Toad-Woman. Pook-jin-squis is most probably a myth...but with roots in the truth. Whatever this picture is, it could be those very roots. Photographed in Moon Bog, there's some indefinably evil about this moss grown thing; something that meshes very well with the tales of the Toad-Woman.

Suffice it to say, I stay away from that place after the sun's gone down - and not just because of the awful pollution from the quarry.

WTF?

Don't even ask me what these things are - I don't want to know. Submitted by 'Anonymous in Maine'.

Real? Photoshopped? I don't have any way of verifying what they are or where they come from, but there's a strange symmetry to the second photograph...

The Pale Men, legend says, are mutated and malformed, joined with creatures of the sea. Some are only slightly larger than humans, some are giants, with the tentacles of octopi and the claws of crabs.

If that doesn't sound like something straight out of Lovecraft, I don't know what would.

I have a feeling that these pictures are an 'artist's impression' of the very creatures I have spent the last few years looking for. How else would he/she have gotten them? This island isn't that big. And the Pale Men have never been sighted elsewhere. They are bound to Solomon Island. Something draws them here, something keeps a few here, and something will draw the rest of them back...some day.

Let's just pray that 'some day' isn't soon.