Hanging high above the lonely night sky, the wraith-like moon illuminated the world with its red blood lustre. An unrecognizable world will emerge... and a new battle for humanity will begin. 

Following the events of the Full Red Moon that took the world by storm, college freshman Lam Sans experiences headaches that torment him day after day. When his neighbour is murdered in front of his eyes, the murderer hunts him down to forever silence him. A brutal confrontation ensues and Lam is heavily injured. 

With a twist of fate, a mysterious group dressed in black attire approach him and beat him up some more.

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Can't delete this novel. Instead of reading this you should just read my other one, The Black-Winged Messenger.

I'm now officially labeled as a stalker. And as a mentally challenged kid.
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Ever since he was little, Zeke Lee has always been able to see 'them'. Bullied and marginalized at a young age, he soon understood that 'they' were to remain a secret. Now a 17-year old high schooler, about to turn 18, he decides to live the rest of his life as an ordinary 9-5 office worker. 

But it's hard to do that once someone is labeled as a stalker. And especially if the victim is a transfer student with an ominous spirit.

at a certain distance from the sky , a sturdy city can be seen at the base of a black pointy mountain. Circumventing the city was a black wall in which it's tall was almost a quarter of the mountains. 

the view that can be seen from the ground through the wall was a speck of white column with pointy end.

meanwhile surrounding the city wall was thick tree and grooves that height was almost three quarters of the black wall.

This is the last city of  human races, In which was almost extinct if not due to the action of 10 persona call "The Elders".

A catastrophic event had happened almost 100 years ago, In which the human races was prosperous and advanced. 

But due to greed and envy,  War broke over the world , and the world was plunged into the state of oblivion, dark and grey world almost devoid of any green luster it was been.

As if the world retaliate against humanity, an unknown phenomenon had happened and beings from other worlds march into the earth.

the creature were human-like but was hideous and undead-like. If a modern person would describe it. They were some sort zombies entity with some sort variation possibly from evolution of some sort 

the period of entry and encounter of the creature with human was brief but the effect was devastating as the contagious disease they carried turn millions of people each day at contact.

plus the creature was quite tough, resilient, cunning and in formation. The army immediately were overwhelmed by the creature on one side and the infected human on the other side.

luckily for the human, with the entrance of the creature a new type of world law were permeated  from the rift and into the world.

one word would be able to describe that law. Magic. 

The realization of magic existence was when there were appearance of persons call paranormal .

they wield strange and powerful ability that were used for good and bad . 

Some use the power to rob people of their natural necessity such as food, fuel and etc. While some others used it to rallied his/her cronies to form a small clan that take part in raiding military base.

As for one part of paranormal group, they band up with the rest of good forces fighting and fought back against the creature.

they fought tirelessly year by year... but in human nature, greed were boundless. 

with endless time of raiding by the evil paranormal, the humanity side were soon tipped back as they were before the appearance of the paranormal. Pushed toward extinction.

with each passing year the resources become much more scarce with the evil paranormal raiding.The humanity future were grim.

and thus 11 strongest good paranormal took the helm of humanity and decided to eradicate the lawless paranormal and establishing a rule to all paranormal to ensure the survival of humanity.

and thus there was a period of time in which human kill other human for the sake of their respective group life continuity's.

the good paranormal prevail but not without a pyrrhic Victory. With each fight humanity lose even more paranormal being and with the continuous attack from the creature, it turns to almost despair for the normal human.

but surprisingly, just before the final battle against the evil paranormal base. The creature stop attacking human settlements. This cease fire give a relieve for all human base. But raises a number of concerns on the reason behind this cessation.

nevertheless the final battle continued and the good side wins. The top evil paranormal were kill and the rest are either captured or executed.

Once the war is over, humanity celebrate the winning with 3 days festival. A lots of food and drinks were brought out , and people eat all they can of what was remaining.

some minority raise questions on the food issues. But were sidestep by the 11 top paranormal.

All went well for 2 days of the festival... and there is no such thing as perfect. With all the booze involved... the security turn lax and sometimes quarrel happened. 

By the last day.... the 11th paranormal sense something awry on the horizon... that was a big flying lizard flying towards the city.

He immediately sound the alarm and the entire city awoken... but still under influence of booze the response were to slow and the 11 paranormal had to go by themselves to deal the flying lizard.

but the lizard was a trap.... behind the rising sun and his unique ability to expand his body several fold... it make like he's approaching the city but rather he is flying about the same places...

under him was a mountain and near the mountain inclination was an army of evolved undead. 

under extreme confidence the 11 elder swiftly rush towards the flying lizard and kill it almost immediately.

but by the time lizard died... all other undead rush in and encircle the 11 elders and kill them in process.... that process cause thousands of high level evolved undead and even cause vice liutenant of Blood Empress to died.

Bermuda Triangle stories were not the only Anomaly incident happened in this world, A new Anomaly was discovered by one nation. New things were expected to come into fruition with that discovery. But one thing that human can't predict was the Nature's Will. The Anomaly resonates with the Solar Flare to bring forth a plague and other being to this world. Hence the Apocalypses Era began

Wang Yang never stopped pursuing his dream of becoming a director and making movies that could amaze the world. However, the fate seemed to play a malicious joke on him. He got wrongly accused and expelled from USC. Fortunately, when God closed a door to Wang Yang, he opened a window for him. After a baby stroller hit him on the street, he began to be able to watch the movies from the future in his head! 
Since then, the year of 1988 was destined to be an extraordinary year. Besides the miracle written by “Titanic”, one of the most legendary directors in the 21st century was rising quietly… 

In the film industry, spot screening is a very normal screening process. Art films will be shown in spot screenings to meet a small number of audiences, then through word-of-mouth publicity, and then attract more audiences to enter the cinema, from spot screenings to expanded screenings, and finally, according to the box office performance to decide whether the full public release.
 
Generally speaking, a screening venue greater than seven hundred is called a public screening, while fifteen hundred is a wide range of public screenings.
 
In addition to art films, Disney's animated films will also choose to screen on demand. But Disney's "spot screening" is special, their spot screening venue is Disneyland, although there are only a few screening halls, but the flow of visitors can not be compared to ordinary theaters; and such "spot screening" also accompanied by a grand screening, specifications, this is a very big deal.
 
Therefore, in the historical list of single theater box office, Disney animated films easily took all the top ten seats, and "The Lion King" in 1994 set a single theater figure of $793,000, which no one has been able to break, leading the way. When people mention the single-hall box office list, they usually add a prefix of "live-action movie" to show the difference.
 
At present, the single-hall box office record for live-action films was set by "Dreamgirls" in 2oo6, with a figure of $126,000, surpassing the $100,900 of "Brokeback Mountain" and taking the all-time record into the bag. This is also up to 2o1o so far, the only two point-of-sale single theater box office over $100,000 works.
 
The highest ranking "The Blair Witch Project", in 1999, created $63,000 single theater data, only ranked 43rd.
 
Interestingly, the $63,000 figure was achieved after "The Blair Witch Project" added six venues in its second week of release, while its first week of release yielded $56,000 in single theater ticket sales, placing it second on the list of thriller-horror genre films. This shows that word of mouth is the best box office catalyst for any type of movie.
 
In addition, "Paranormal Activity" was the third highest grossing film of all time with $49,000 per theater during last year's previews.
 
Now, with all the attention and buzz, "Buried" has shown incredible appeal, even outperforming "Paranormal Activity 2" in terms of buzz, with busy art house theaters in both Los Angeles and New York throughout the weekend. This is the most direct manifestation of the busy scenes in the art theaters in Los Angeles and New York throughout the weekend, which made all the major media outlets express great expectations for the film's single-venue box office, and some even speculated whether this work could replicate the trajectory of "The Blair Witch Project" and come out of the fabulous box office curve.
 
In the end, "Buried" did not disappoint, delivering $46,000 in the first week of previews, which drew a huge roar of amazement!
 
The "46,000" figure alone is nothing to write home about, barely making it into the top 100 of the live-action movie single-hall box office charts, and only occupying fourth place in the thriller-horror genre, failing to break "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity" box offices.
 
This is indeed a good achievement, but far from being a big book.
 
However, both "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity" were heavily promoted prior to their release, with viral videos and viral news, giving people the false impression that the stories in the films were real, and that the films were complete documentaries. This undoubtedly drew the curiosity of the audience, even if they did not care about horror films, they could not help but go into the cinema; the follow-up also supported further rendering, the line between real and film completely blurred, laying a solid foundation for the box office miracle, the handheld camera pseudo-documentary filming method officially became popular.
 
In contrast, "Buried" did not carry out any form of publicity before its release, and after Toronto and Telluride's popularity, even magazine interviews did not begin, relying only on the spread of word-of-mouth and the spread of Renly's own topic gimmick to attract more attention.
 
It was as if a nobody from a mountain village suddenly appeared in the ring, broke everyone's expectations, fought the current champion for fifteen rounds, still didn't get knocked out, and lost simply because of a points disadvantage.
 
Yes, he lost, but the shock was not diminished in any way. This is the current situation of "Buried".
 
What's more, "Buried" is not a pseudo-documentary gimmick, but a solid independent film that relies entirely on the director's skills and the actors' ability to move the audience, and creates such a performance under the infection and drive of the lack of freshness, any praise is not excessive.
 
The media did the same.
 
"A single-hall box office record, "Buried" shines as a dark horse!"
 
"Another "Paranormal Activity 2"? "Buried" beats its rivals to the punch and comes out of nowhere!"
 
"One ticket is hard to come by, and the biggest variable for Halloween this year has emerged: can "Buried" repeat the box office miracle of "Paranormal Activity" style?"
 
"Sparking conversation during spot screenings, after the small screen, Renly Hall shines on the big screen again!"
 
"From Toronto to Telluride to the North American market, "Buried" continues its blowout word-of-mouth frenzy."
 
"The biggest surprise of the year? "Buried" ushered in a frenzy of audiences and critics alike!"
 
"At $46,000 for a single gallery, the second "The Blair Witch Project" reappears."
 
"A breakthrough, "Paranormal Activity 2" ushers in its biggest competitor early: "Buried"!"
 
"Word of mouth is bursting! "Buried" staged a miraculous comeback."
 
"Is this scenario so familiar? A year ago, the miracle of "Paranormal Activity" reappeared!"
 
""Fast 5" cast collectively added. "Buried" hits the spot!"
 
...
 
News of all sizes spread all over the world, especially with the strong attention of "Fast 5" and "Paranormal Activity", over one hundred and fifty media outlets reported on the outstanding performance of "Buried" - before Focus Features even had the chance to force the film, word of mouth had already exceeded expectations and box office performance had already exceeded plans!
 
With such momentum, even stronger than that of the wide public release, this is definitely a more than perfect opening.
 
There is no doubt that "Buried" has become the biggest surprise of the week, showing a strong momentum that is definitely not inferior to that of "Paranormal Activity 2" and even overpowering its competitors in the same genre in terms of buzz. The humiliation that "Paranormal Activity" brought to its rivals in the beginning, the sequel now feels it from its rivals, which ... is really stifling.
 
In the third week of October, "Paranormal Activity 2" opened in more than 3,200 theaters, and although word of mouth was in shambles, the sequel easily attracted a large number of viewers to theaters, relying on the buzz created by its predecessor, and eventually reaped $40 million at the box office, easily crowning it this week's weekend box office The top of the charts!
 
This is enough for a production that cost less than three million dollars to make the company Paramount smile. Even if the hot topic was stolen from the limelight, even if the word-of-mouth feedback was far from expected, even if the media was overwhelmed with curses, even if the subsequent box office trend is unsustainable, so what? The box office results of the screening weekend already let Paramount earn a fortune, after all the income is sitting on the rhythm of counting money, this is the most important.
 
In the wake of "Paranormal Activity 2", "Jackass 3D", "Red", "Hereafter" and "The Social Network" occupied the remaining seats of the top five respectively.
 
In this, the focus of the topic can be quite a lot, "Red" gathered Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and other big names, while receiving a lot of praise. "Hereafter" is Clint Eastwood teamed up with Matt Damon to create the work; and "The Social Network", by far one of the biggest seeds of the awards season ...
 
Add to that the high popularity of 3d movies since last year's "Avatar", last week's "Jackass 3D" and next week's "Saw VII", all of these are hot spots.
 
But even so, "Buried" still killed a bloody road, eleven theaters made $506,000 weekend box office figures, strongly among the top twenty weekend box office charts in North America this week! Occupying the nineteenth position, and behind is this year's summer season sweeping "Inception".
 
From buzz to word-of-mouth feedback, from single theater box office to focus, "Buried" has written its own miracle, which also makes the name "Renly Hall" once again widely spread, no one can separate "Buried" from Renly. No one can separate "Buried" from Renly, it can be said that "Buried" made Renly, and it can be said that Renly made "Buried", but there is no doubt that both "Buried" and Renly have won the recognition of the audience.
 
However, the spot screening is just a spot screening, the success of the spot screening can not mean the success of the expansion, the views of senior professional film fans can not represent the general public's preferences, spot screening during the highly sought-after, after the expansion of the audience refused to buy, such cases are countless.
 
What kind of box office success can "Buried" achieve, and what will be the prospect of the awards season, all are still unknown, focus on the next expansion plan and publicity means is crucial.
 
You know, "Buried" must next face "Saw VII", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I", "Megamind", "The Book of Life", "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and many other works of continuous impact, this is a rare summer war in recent years, the intensity even compared to the summer season is no less than.
 
So, what are the chances of winning for "Buried"?

After getting the final relief from his past sufferings, Chu Jiashu was given a second chance when he found himself in the body of an infant from an aristocratic family of Hall. Now, nothing is going to stop him from achieving his long-cherished dream of acting. Enter Renly Hall, a Hollywood miracle of 21st century.


Note from the translator - from me, that is.
   
"Honestly, I get frustrated too much when I look at countless subpar novels being translated day after day. So much human resources wasted. I kinda get what Qidian International is doing, but it is just, I can't bear the notion of having so many wonderful novels that belong to the Chinese platform to be left in the dust. English-speaking community should know of the existence of such brilliant works, and more so, they should enjoy them. The novel is by a Chinese dude "Qiqi Jia D Mao Mao", whatever that might mean, who wrote several showbiz novels (he is probably the best at what he is doing). It is not my work, I'm just a dude who, with the help of two free machine translators (DeepL and good ol' Google), can show you a hidden gem. Wait, you said machine translators? Sadly, yes. I can't speak Chinese at all, but fortunately, this novel is structured in a machine-translation-friendly way, like really so. Most of the time context is saved. I'm just polishing the edges with my superb (not really) editing skills, so you all chaps have a splendid experience with this good staff indeed. Actually, you can go and read machine translation or just wait for my updates. Up to you dudes and dudies. And then I go away...blewb, blewb, blewb, blewb, blewb....."

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"I am a knife for a hire. So the managers of the site can employ me for this novel, but please don't remove it. Oh, please, I'm begging you on my knees. You guys won't even think of translating this novel, and here I am "translating" it for free,.... well for the time being, that is mwahahaha!"

P.S. for P.S.
This novel does not contain the following:
Harem, definitely not NTR, stupid characters, NTR again (God, I hate NTR (secretly beating the meat for a one in hentai))

But this novel contains:
Great storyline, relatable characters, realistic situations, very fun moments as well as tear jerking ones (so much so, you will find your throat hella sore from crying all the time), surprise after surprise for the decisions that author went with.

You will have a good time indeed
WARNING! READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION!

Hi, so we would like to ask you a few questions so that our readers can get to know more about Paranormal All-Stars (PAS), its members, and the work that you guys do. To start it off, please introduce yourself. Like, aside from your name, we'd like to know what you specialize in and what your job or position in the group is. If there are any, of course.
 
Welcome to Paranormal All-Stars Presents The Series and I'm Clyde Tasipit, the Founder of the Philippine Paranormal All-Stars. I deal with the spirits and esoteric sides of the paranormal and supernatural. I use different scientific methods and experimentations to justify the legitimacy of a phenomenon, and when science can no longer explain it, then the use of special abilities will come into play. I also studied Demonology and also practiced the Dark Arts.
 
Since when were you involved with the supernatural and paranormal?
 
I was 7 years old when I first encountered them. For me, that time, I thought it was just normal, until I grew up and understood the things that were happening. I started to study about it and dwell in the world beyond the normal.
 
Do you like what you do? What are the perks of it for you?
 
Like? No one would like these abilities, for people who dream of having such would call it a gift, but for me it's a curse. As Uncle Ben from Spider-Man would put it, with great power comes great responsibility.
 
What about other people? How do they see you and your work? Are there any misconceptions that you would want to clear up regarding your beliefs and work?
 
I'm at the point in my life that when people say 1 + 1 = 5, I would totally agree with them, because they are saying that based on a different viewpoint in life and will only see things from there, while I can circle around so I can understand it fully. We call that Occam's Razor in psychology. I've grown tired of explaining it to people and realized that people can only chew what they would want to eat and that an ordinary human brain cannot digest all the information that's given to them. There is this limiter that when things get too complicated to understand, they tag it in the easiest way they can.
 
What are the top reminders/advice that you would give to others regarding the supernatural and paranormal?
 
Study the basics, and from there you can expect that things will get more complicated as you get nearer the rabbit hole. It's up to you now if you would still want to go deeper or stay out of it and live a "normal" life. It's hard here, you won't be able to breathe easily, you won't have peace of mind, and you will never look at the things the same way again.
If you decide to go on a paranormal investigation, if you're not trained for it, at least don't go alone.
 
Considering that you guys are paranormal investigators, would you mind telling us something about how a typical job goes? Like, what do you usually do and how do you go about it?
 
As a regular investigator would do, you have to find hard or solid evidence first, talk to the witness and create a picture out of their story. After you do that, you have to study the evidence you have gathered, search for the history and research about the geographical and current events in that particular area. Next, evaluate the information, do some experimentation with it, and finally chase some ghosts out there.
 
We're pretty sure that you've had encounters that are a bit more interesting or exciting than others. Would you mind telling us your favorite paranormal/supernatural experience?
 
It was an exorcism way back in college. A woman was possessed by a vengeful spirit, and I was with a psychologist and an exorcist sent by the Cardinal of that time. It took us five days to get that spirit out, and in the end, we successfully cast it out and summoned it to limbo.
The interesting part here is that the vengeful spirit claimed that he was the spirit of a person who was killed by this woman during their sex session, and yes, the woman was a sex worker. We still don't know if the spirit wanted another round, or the woman had done something to him which caused his death.
 
Could you tell us a little bit about the history of Paranormal All-Stars? How did it come about?
 
At first I was a lone wolf. I never really wanted to be in a group until there were these people who became close friends of mine and urged me to create it. From that circle, we received enormous support from different paranormal and psychic icons here in our country, and after a year, we have been recognized internationally. The lone wolf is now part of a huge pack of wolves, hungry for the truth about paranormal and supernatural.
 
What does the group aim to do by engaging in paranormal investigation?
 
I always tell the other members that fear is a product of ignorance, and to learn, to grow and to bring out the truth is the goal that we should strive for ever since the first day of the group.

Around the mid-2010's, Mab De Narra created a social media group that was meant to be a place where people can share their personal paranormal and supernatural experiences without the fear of being judged by others. They could even find others who can help them with their paranormal questions, spiritual issues, and supernatural problems on this page.

Meanwhile, she was eventually included in The Paranormal All-Stars, where she is able to help even more puzzled and troubled individuals. And by sharing these cases and experiences through this book, we hope to help more to not fear what they don’t know...

...but to see beyond what their senses tell them.

After all, there’s always more to these things than meets the eye.

NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER/CONFERENCE with TED BENNETT and EVAN DAVIS, Continued
March, 2010
BUFFALO, NY

"Where do you think that incident happened?" said Ted Bennett. "The meeting at the inn?"
"I think it was in one of the towns along one of the Finger Lakes, maybe Cayuga Lake, maybe the west side. He told me the town, but it didn't register. I don't get to that part of the state too much. You might go into the records and look for the disappearances of young women in the area. If any of this is true, that young woman in the story was real and natural as far as the people she worked with were concerned. Someone must have reported her simply disappearing. I do know that it was in the spring, and it would have been in the early-1990s."
"You think this Lang-character existed?" said Bennett.
"I believe that there is or was somebody out there like him," I said. "My own friend had a penchant for edgy friends of his own. I would wager that some version of this story is close to something someone really told him. My friend took his witness seriously or he never would have told the story to me. But don't forget that my story is an imaginative takeoff. My friend never witnessed morphing vampires or spontaneous post-death combustion, and I never got to speak to the man who claimed to."
"So how much belief in any of this do you have?" said Bennett.
"My friend didn't go out of his way to tell whoppers," I said. "He was a pretty tough-minded guy. He actually had a complete scorn of most spiritual and paranormal subjects. Ghosts... UFOs... Mystery monsters... Religion he saw as a way of controlling the masses. He did like Forteana, though: weird stuff. I remember that about him."
"Ghosts and UFOs aren't weird?" said Evan Davis.
"Weird they may be," I said, "but they aren't lonely. They come in categories, and there's a tradition about both subjects in legend and report. Maybe millions of sightings. Reported sightings, I mean. Many people still say they see those things. Hell, I've seen a couple ghosts.
"The big trick with the subject of Forteana, nicknamed after Charles Fort, a twentieth century American author, is that they tend to be one-offs. Fort's got four books, and he sort of set the model. Fortean phenomena is things that are weird, but that have no perceptible meaning or connection. They are strings of reports, eruptions of crazy stuff that make no sense. Crazy lights in the sky. Crazy things falling out of the sky. Crazy things dug up out of the ground. Fort's work is sort of a paranormal "Ripley's Believe it or Not." My old friend used to like that stuff. It appealed to his sense of the contrary."
"We'd like to speak to your friend's mysterious friend," said Bennett hiding his impatience with my instruction. "The Lang-character."
"I could probably track down my late friend's second wife," I said. "I can find you some friends. But the obituary ought to be the best lead on family. You might do something as simple as check the log of signatures at the memorial, to be honest. It would be just like that Lang-character to show up out of nowhere, nod to the casket, say nothing, and be gone. I'll do the best I can with those names and contacts when we're done." There was an uncomfortable silence. "Why are you guys so interested in this story and my late friend? It seems just too fantastic to be related to anything."
Ted Bennett said. "We found something in your story about silver."
I looked at them as if to say, 'So?'
The guys at the table made eye contact. Bennett spoke precisely. "In your circles... in the paranormal... Have you heard anything about the effectiveness or properties of silver? Is there any sort of tradition there?"
"Not in paranormal reports," I said. "Not ringing any bells at all. I've never heard anyone carry on about it except as a medicine against infections in very small doses. I know it's a natural antibacterial agent. I hear the aristocrats in Europe didn't catch some of the plagues because they ate off silver implements and got little doses of the metal that way. In folklore - traditional folklore and legend - now that's a different story."
"So folklore and the paranormal are different," said Evan Davis.
"Uh... Yeah," I said. I thought we'd been through that before. I thought everyone with an education had been through it.
"Folklore is... Well, hard to summarize. Folklore is understood to be almost completely fiction. Folklore is traditional legends and stories that have undergone so many changes in the cycle of oral tradition that they've become utterly fantastic. It's legends turned into stories. Magic spells and beings. Talking animals. Shapeshifting. Curses.
"There's a cultural association with folklore, too. It brings people of a like origin or occupation or mindset together. It's got a preindustrial root. It's passed along through generations. The stories that make it... The ones that last with the culture... They have a thematic integrity, a balance to them, a serious meaning to the unconscious mind. They're satisfying. They're moral or instructional. Otherwise they wouldn't have lasted.
"The paranormal... That's a much more contemporary idea. It's a much younger version of folklore. It's rumor before it becomes folklore. And it's all presumed to be true, at least by the people who perpetuate it. You find living people all the time asserting that their various paranormal subject areas are actually real. Nobody comes up and tells you that about folklore. I guess the key is that folklore is based on stories and the paranormal is based on witnesses. You could also say that the paranormal is folklore in the first generation.
"'Paranormal' is starting to be used in pop circles as a synonym for 'ghostly.' Really, 'paranormal' means just something that isn't accepted by the mainstream. Least it did thirty years ago. Mystery monsters. UFOs. Earth energies. Vortexes. Ancient mysteries. It's like in a funny way the TV industry has swayed the definition of a word. It happened with 'ectoplasm,' too." They looked bored with my elucidation. I wish they would have asked what was really on their minds.
"Sometimes what's considered paranormal actually becomes normal. The Europeans thought the African gorilla was like Bigfoot until the late 1800s. Archaeoastronomy - astronomical alignments at ancient religious structures - was something for the loony fringe till the 1960s when Gerald Hawkins wrote his book on Stonehenge. In the 1970s Anthony Aveni of Colgate demonstrated archaeoastronomy in Mesoamerican sacred structures, and then it came all the way out of the closet."
Davis looked at me like I was Mr.-Unasked-for-Walking Encyclopedia. "You are certainly one prepared young man," he said in his accent I still presumed to be midwestern.
"We're continually impressed by your grasp of your subject," said Ted Bennett. "Let's get back on base with the legends from your perspective. Why is silver supposed to be the metal that works against evil? Vampires, monsters, werewolves?"
"I never said it was," I said. "Not everywhere. It's true that in film and fiction of the last hundred or so years, silver has been the go-to monster fighter. But that's all pop. Entertainment."
They looked at me as if this surprised them. I realized again that their understanding of these subjects was entry-level no matter how many reports they had somebody write for them.
"The notion that silver was the material that worked against vampires is a fairly regional tradition from the Carpathian mountains," I continued. "No one's sure how old it is. Right at the end of the 19th century, the Irish author Bram Stoker popularized the silver thing in his hit book on Dracula. Very little that you see or read about vampires or werewolves since has been influenced by anything other than Stoker. The metal that was presumed to be the real magic-fighter to most of preindustrial Europe was iron." They both blinked.
"Yeah, there's actually a much older and stronger tradition about iron. Don't forget that a lot of our tales and legends have their roots in the Stone Age, the Copper Age, or the Bronze Age... eras in which iron was pretty rare. Iron was such a wonder-material in its early days that it's no wonder it would become the focus of a lot of legend. In the ancient world in Europe it was always iron that worked against all types of magic. Witches, fairies, ghosts... The story goes that that's why we have so little magic in the world anymore. It's why we don't see the fairies. Steel and iron are everywhere. It's supposed to be deadly against magic."
"We're mostly interested in what you have to say about silver," said Evan Davis. "We're looking for ideas about it as a material in your subject field. Why would silver have an effect, a damaging effect, on something when nothing else would?"
"Let me backtrack," I said, although thinking to myself, 'Why is the drug guy so curious about silver?' "The preindustrial world had a number of ideas about materials that worked against evil forces or beings. It wasn't just iron or silver. There were plants like garlic in the Mediterranean and Central Europe. The oak was big with the Celtic druids. Mistletoe was big with the Scandinavians. For the Iroquois nations of upstate New York, the magic wand had to be made out of the red osier, which is a type of a dogwood with beautiful bright red stems.

[To Be Continued...]




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Author, teacher, storyteller, and supernatural historian Mason Winfield studied English and Classics at Denison University, earned a master’s degree in British literature at Boston College, and studied poetry and fiction at SUNY Buffalo with professor emeritus and MacArthur grant recipient Irving Feldman. He has written or edited fourteen books, including the regional sensation “Shadows of the Western Door” (1997) and “Iroquois Supernatural,” co-authored with Michael Bastine, on the traditions of the Six Longhouse Nations (Inner Traditions International/Bear & Company, 2011). Several of his surveys of upstate folklore and paranormal tradition may be found at the website of Western New York Wares: www.buffalobooks.com. He may be reached at www.masonwinfield.com.

An anatomically perfect human jaw fashioned of diamond-hard quartz crystal is uncovered at an Ohio burial mound and sold on the underground antiquities market. Shortly after, three pothunters are found dead.

A mysterious new drug suspected of South American origin surfaces in Buffalo, NY. Its unprecedented psycho-tropic effects include the momentary activation of ESP. 

Blind, speechless, emaciated street people start appearing in many parts of the world. An urban legend-cycle forms around them, and the name of a murderous old cult, “the Whistlers” attaches to them.

An archaeological team at a Mayan site reports finding a bizarre artifact and vanishes. 

An upstate schoolteacher’s book of New York legends and folklore foreshadows these developments and more. 

   These are the threads – plus his affair with a maddening woman – that draw narrator Ward Courier into the international adventure of occultism, terror, Native American tradition and onrushing prophecy that is Mason Winfield’s anticipated new novel THE WHISTLERS. By the time the picture of THE WHISTLERS becomes clear, we are ready to believe in a sinister conspiracy that could predate Atlantis and even hail from another world.

On the way back to the police station, Sam is asking me about how we going to report this case.
"Hey partner, what would you write in the report later?"
"The facts of course. We receive information about the next bombing target, go to the crime scene, do as procedures by evacuating civilians and call bomb squads"
"I mean the part when we caught the bomber"
"Well, with information from Macy, we can apprehend the culprit. That's what I will write in the report"
"Aren't you worried captain will scold you again?"
"Huh? You want me to write what? Making up something to make it more make sense? Sorry I can't"
"Yeah, you always like that. Don't say I'm not warning you thou"
When we arrive at the police station, I write the report on this bombing case according to the fact that we have been through today. Nothing is hidden just to make the report acceptable. And when I submit the report to the captain, just as Sam said, my captain after reading the report scolds me thoroughly.
"Seriously Rick, once twice I still can give you leeway. But this time is the third time you submit this report with this amnesiac paranormal girl who knows how to speak with spirit as a source of information. Do you think my superior will accept this?"
"But captain, the using of paranormal to solve criminal cases is not something uncommon. There are cases where police involving some paranormal to help their investigation"
"As I said, once twice is okay. But when we solve many cases with paranormal assistance, you know what the public will say? They will say the Police department is useless, they can't investigate properly, and if those paranormal failed to help to solve the case and dragging innocent people in that case, that will bring great damage for police department".
"I know sir, but what I've written in that report also really happen. We are the police that should uphold the law and justice, how can we uphold law and justice if we must write lies on our report?"
Captain Allan is massaging his forehead. I know he can't rebuke my words because what I'm said is true.
"Alright, I get it. But I must transfer you two from homicide section to public safety section to make you less contact with that paranormal girl. This is my final decision for your transfer, move your belonging to your new section"
"Right now sir? But we still have an unsolved case on that hotel Luxor"
"Yes, start today, this hour, this minute, this second. Your letter of transfer will be followed after that, you still in part of hotel Luxor investigation since no further development on that case"
"Yes, sir"
We left captain office with a little-dejected feeling. As a policeman, I know that transfer is a common thing in the police force, but the homicide section is my favorite. It has a certain pleasure to be able to solve some cases which involving the life of others. But what can I do? We're quickly packing our things from our desk and move to public safety section. After meeting with the officer in charge of public safety section, Sergeant William, we get our new desk and our new assignment.
The assignment that we receive is looking for a girl that goes missing from an orphanage. The boy who walks with the girl before missing said that she was taken into a van by some people in their way back to the orphanage after school is over. There's no demand or ransom request from the people who kidnapping the girl which make this case becomes a deadlock. The license plate on the van is fake which make no further investigation can be done on this missing girl.

"Do you believe in ghosts, in spirits?

If you believe in a soul then maybe you should believe in those as well. Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it's not there.

Rick Jones, a homicide detective with his partner, Sam Wright, received a dispatch call to investigate a mass-murder in a hotel room. The investigation led them to something that went beyond logic, something that involved supernatural beings.

An amnesiac, mysterious girl. How was she connected to a mass murderer? Who was she? Could she really talk to ghosts and spirits?" 

Follow Rick Jones adventures with the mysterious girl through twisted fate that bring them together

''Good evening young interns or should I say, future paranormal investigators and my fellow associates, my name is Earl Henderson, but you all should refer to me as Mr. Henderson. I would like to discuss this evening's agenda with you. Firstly, we will have our welcome and introductions from Mr. Williams then, we will have an introduction and brief history of our organization 'After Dusk Investigations' by Mr. Smith. Next, on today's agenda, we will have a few of our host and hostess give their speeches based on their experience and their time working with us, they will also introduce you to investigation then introduce you to paranormal activity, they will then take it a step further and introduce you to paranormal investigation. Thirdly, we will have some of our famous paranormal investigators who have studied here and who are quite experienced in this field, they will inform you of the risks and dangers you would have to face in being a paranormal investigator as well as offer some advice, spread their knowledge and share some helpful tips that will be quite beneficial for you on this internship. Finally, we will have our last speaker of this evening, our manager, and host who has been with us for over 20 years Mr. David Martin, he will fully explain this internship to you and give you all the details of it. After you will then be dismissed and required to meet in your groups at the back and your leaders will inform you of which forest you will be staying in for the next four months as well as further details of your specific destination'' the CEO notifies.
The meeting goes well, it's a bit long but very informative. I'm so agitated and anxious as I shift uncomfortably in my seat, I'm not cut out to stay in a forest for four months, that's crazy! I need way more training and practice before I go out in a forest all by myself, god knows what or who I would meet. Wait for a second, does it mean we have to camp out there for four months in the woods? no no no-no-no. I can't sleep in a tent in a forest in the middle of nowhere, something would kill me, especially if it's a haunted forest, being a paranormal investigator is something I've always wanted but I'm definitely not ready for this that will take years and years of training before I even think about doing something like this. Oh god!
My mother would never let me do that. My mother! oh my god, I totally forgot about her, she already doesn't want me to take this internship, wait till she hears that I have to camp out in a haunted forest for four months, she would never let me do that but then again I'm almost 18, I'm almost an adult and I can make these decisions on my own, it's my decision if I wanna camp out in a forest for four months then I can, she can't force me not to.
She will flip out when she hears this and I have no idea how I'm gonna tell her or Nelson, I should maybe just tell both of them at the same time in the car so that way I won't have to listen to Nelson repeat my mother's words for the second time if I tell him alone. Erin and April won't be pleased about this either but if I really wanna do this I know they'll support me. I can't be away from Nelson, Erin, and April for so long, my mother maybe, but not without the three of them. I won't know anyone there, friends don't really matter to me that much, I've never had that many when growing up, it was always only Nelson but I wouldn't like to be alone and not have any close friends on this trip. I will be by myself camping out in the woods with a group of strangers for four months, that thought sends a shiver down my spine.
''Are you okay?'' Kate nudges me on the elbow, she must've noticed my flustered expression.
''Yeah, I'm just a little nervous'' I respond.
The meeting is now over and Kate and I make our way to the group meeting at the back.
''Good evening everyone, this group meeting will be brief, my name is Janet Wilber and this is my colleague George Brown, we will be your leaders for this tour along with Henry Miller and Dave Mayer who are the hosts of this tour whom are also experienced paranormal investigators for over 10 years and have visited the destination we are about to visit multiple times to conduct research, they will guide us through it and most of all keep us safe. We will be going to the Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve which is in San Diego not too far from here. We will be staying in a cabin southwest of Escondido in the forest for the first two weeks then we will hike along the trails into the depts of the Elfin forest and then our investigation shall begin. For those of you who are not aware of the town Escondido, Escondido is a Spanish word which means 'Hidden', which is the only word to describe this town as well as haunted. The Elfin Forest is filled with beautiful hiking trails and unspoiled campgrounds. On the day, everyone will be given a map of the reserve and we all have to stay together as you all may know The Elfin Forest lies one of the most haunted regions in California. There are hundreds, even thousands of stories, legends and sightings of paranormal entities in the Elfin Forest and the surrounding areas. If you all are not aware of the legends and stories that the Elfin Forest holds then I suggest you research it before this internship begins. There is nothing to be afraid of as long as we stick together and we chant our spells before entering the forest suggesting to the paranormal entities that we come in peace and we bring them no harm they will just follow us but not harm us. You will see some things you have never witnessed before or maybe never believed in and maybe meet some people whom you never met before but this will all prepare you for becoming a paranormal investigator in the future. Okay let's put all this fright and work behind, I can assure you that this internship will be fun and exhilarating, it will be an adventure that you will never forget. The 10 of us will all be friends and be each other's company. We will share secrets, make jokes, play games and most of all enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Elfin Forest.'' Ms. Wilber notifies with a smile.
''Okay everyone so as you all may my name is Mr. Miller one of you other leaders for this tour. This internship will begin on Monday 24th June exactly 11 days from now which should give you enough time to prepare for it and it will end on October 24th, this internship will last for four months. For the first 2 weeks, we will be staying in a cabin in Southwest Escondido country, it is close to the forest but not too close, we will be hiking along the trails there, the trails will be listed for you on the map you will be given on the day. We will stay in that cabin for two weeks and get to know each other and explore some nearby trails but we will return to the cabin afterward. After the 2 weeks, we will leave and begin our hike, we will hike up the mountain while exploring the Elfin Forest and its mysteries. This will be a long hike because we will not be just hiking but investigating and stopping off most of the way to look for clues, artifacts, or anything that we could find that will aid us in our research of any paranormal activity. If you come across any paranormal activity or entity just stay calm and do as we say and you will be fine. I have gone to this forest multiple times and have returned safely, you will be terrified as this is your first time witnessing these activities in person and camping out in a haunted forest for 4 months. You will be safe I can promise you that, that is why we are here. After our investigation is done we will hike down the mountains and return to our cabin in Southwest Escondido and stay for the remaining two weeks and calm down ourselves from everything that happened in the last 3 three months. On the day of June 24th, you will be required to meet the group at Palomar Mountain State Park which is a forested area in California. The group will meet there at 12 p.m. and we will drive to Escondido to our cabin. The cabin has 5 bedrooms, a medium-sized cozy living room with a fireplace, a kitchen, a front porch and there is a bathroom in each room. There will be 2 persons per room, of course, both of the same sex. Everyone is required to pack their essentials such as clothes, soap, toothbrush, etc. and also camping supplies, you will be given a list today of all the things you are required to bring with you on this internship. You all will have some free time for yourselves along these four months but you cannot wander too far without informing us'' Mr. Miller informs then steps back next to Mr. Mayer.
''Are there any questions? ask now or forever hold your peace'' Ms. Wilber asks.
''Is everyone okay, does anyone want to decline this internship and back out, if you do please raise your hand'' she adds.
Everyone remains silent and looks on. My subconscious tells me to raise my hand but I ignore her and keep my hand down.
''Great! so we have a full group of ten''
''Well everyone you are in for a terrifying yet exhilarating ride of a lifetime. Remember once the hike starts and we are in the forest there is no backing out, this is your last chance'' Mr. Miller informs.
Everyone moves from their previous position to across the room at the corner where we all have to sign a form saying that we accept this internship and are bearing the risks and dangers that may arise. I am frozen in place as I stare at the ground. I can't do this I'm not ready, I can't camp out in the Elfin forest for three months, that's insane. I was relieved to hear that we get to stay in a comfortable cabin for the first 2 weeks and the last 2 weeks which leaves us three months in that forest. This does sound terrifying but I have a good feeling about it. I decide to make a Pros and cons list in my head. PROs: by staying out there for four months, I will feel more like an adult and be independent. 2. I will gain a lot of knowledge and experience that will benefit me in the future when I become a paranormal investigator and 3. Although this sounds horrifying, I have a good feeling about it. CONs 1. I may die.... or maybe not. I mean they did say that they will keep us safe and also that they've been there multiple times and are here today perfectly fine. You know what, I'll do it, something's telling me to go for it, this is an opportunity that will never come again. I didn't apply for it but I got it anyway and it's mine.
Who knows what I'll see or who I'll meet along this horrific journey, they may even change my life.
''Are you coming?'' Kate asks me.
''Yeah''
We make our way to the table and we are each given a form to sign that we accept this internship along with its dangers. Kate gives me a quick smile before signing. We both sign, collect our list of things we have to bring on the trip, and the map of Escondido and make our way out the door and across the hall and into the elevator.
''Hey I'm just as scared as you are, but at least we'll have each other so I guess it won't be too bad'' she says and smiles at me as we make our way into the elevator.
''Yeah, I hope it's not too bad'' I say as the elevator reaches the 4th floor.
''I hope we can be friends, you seem like a really nice girl'' she says.
''I hope so too because I don't know anyone in there besides you'' I reply.
'' Me too, well I guess I'll see you on June 24th then'' she says and waves bye as she exits the building and walks to what looks like her mom's car.
I wave her off and check my watch, it's now 3:30 and I notice Nelson's car parked in the carpark at the front, I make my way down the stairs of the building and to the car. I have no idea how I'm gonna explain any of this to them but all I know is that it won't end well.

After she finds out 'What Lies Under the Mask' she would wish she hadn't...

Have you ever seen ghosts? First of all do ghosts really exist? Firstly I will tell Ghost is a terrific term which makes it sounds creepy. It's the souls or spirits, actually I mean to say evil souls or evil spirits, whose presence we can feel and who can even harm us. Sometimes we eventually see them.
Now coming to the main topic, What is Paranormal? The things that we don't see in our daily life in our daily chores. Simply Paranormal is things that are not completely normal. Some paranormal activity occures suddenly and some are intentionally occurred. Intentionally occurred in the sense that the  evils are called in practice of some paranormal games.
Now someone will say that paranormal games are wastage of time. And some will say it's real. Now the main thing is the experiment, without the real experiment nobody can exactly witness such situation. What I say is all of the Paranormal games are not real , on the other hand some are actually real and if you perform all the steps of that games very accurately then fortunately you will meet them, only fortunate if they leaves you unharmed. I will describe here about one of the most famous and epic paranormal games that is "Dry bones", this game is bit uncommon what you have to do in this game is just at the midnight after 1 minute passes from 12 you have to enter to your bathroom and with a candle in your hand you have to say "I can feel your presence, now you are welcome in my home" after you are done with go to any of your large room. If everything is alright then an evil spirit will enter your room, now from that evil spirit you have to hide till 3a.m, if she can't find you then one of your wishes will be fulfilled and unfortunately if she finds you then your life would be at danger. This was just one, there are many paranormal games.
And at the last I want to say PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't try this game, its only tried and performed by professionals and paranormal experts, so don't play or try this at home.

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