DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
PERSONNEL DIRECTORY — OPERATIONS DIVISION (SECTOR BAY-19)
File ID: BAY-LTC-1969-01 / The Letchie
Classification: LEVEL 4 — CONTROLLED
ACTIVE PERSONNEL
Agent ███ ███████
Status: ACTIVE
Assignment: Site BAY-19B, Field Liaison
Notes: Survived 1971 bait/tether experiment. Reports residual auditory distortion (claims to “hear his own voice lagging” in playback). Cleared for limited duty.
Dr. █████ █████ (Research Division)
Status: ACTIVE
Assignment: Lead investigator, acoustic studies.
Notes: Advocates non-invasive observation protocols. Recorded memo (1972): “Every attempt to trap it has cost lives. We must listen, not chase.”
MISSING PERSONNEL
Agent Thomas ██████
Status: MISSING — Presumed Lost, 1969
Incident: Part of BAY-EX-01 Playback Counter-Mimicry. Broke perimeter, entered swamp during auditory compulsion event. Body never recovered.
Technician Marie-████ █████
Status: MISSING — Presumed Lost, 1972
Incident: Monitoring equipment at Site BAY-19A recorded her voice hours after she vanished. Analysis suggests the entity replicated her speech before disappearance confirmed.
TERMINATED PERSONNEL
Agent Harold ████████
Status: TERMINATED, 1971
Incident: Attempted containment by electrified net (Operation BAY-NET-3). Entity did not engage bait; agent entered water to reposition equipment. Later recovered floating, bloodless, with no predation marks.
Official Cover: “Alligator strike.”
Dr. James ██████ (Consultant)
Status: TERMINATED, 1973
Incident: Field study attempting direct vocal confrontation (Operation BAY-CALL-2). Recorded shouting into swamp at night. Audio recovered: his voice repeating back in triplicate, followed by silence. Body unrecovered.
INTERNAL REMARKS
Failure Pattern: Direct attempts at capture (nets, bait, amplified calls) consistently led to personnel losses.
Current Directive: “No further capture operations authorized. Observation only.” — memo from Division Director, 1974.
Rumor (unverified): Surviving staff whisper that “the Bayou keeps its own roll call”—suggesting the entity incorporates lost personnel into its mimicry, effectively adding them to the directory.
DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
OPERATIONS DIVISION — LOSS LEDGER
File ID: BAY-LTC-1969-01 / The Letchie
Classification: LEVEL 4 — CONTROLLEDCASUALTY RECORD — SECTOR BAY-19 (1969–1974)
Op CodeDateObjectiveOutcomeCasualty SummaryBAY-EX-01Sept 1969Playback counter-mimicry using recorded hymnsEntity engaged, responded with distorted repetitionAgent Thomas ██████ — MISSING. One civilian volunteer — MISSING. Operation aborted.BAY-NET-3Feb 1971Deploy electrified containment net across canalEntity did not approach; agent attempted manual repositionAgent Harold ████████ — TERMINATED (bloodless recovery).BAY-SURV-2Jul 1971Track seasonal movement via acoustic triangulationSensors overloaded with simultaneous multi-voice playback; site compromisedTwo technicians sustained psychological trauma (unfit for duty). No fatalities.BAY-CALL-2Apr 1973Direct vocal confrontation (human caller as bait)Final recording: Dr. James ██████’s voice repeated in triplicate, then silenceDr. James ██████ — TERMINATED, body unrecovered.BAY-EX-07Oct 1974Submersion autopsy simulation with animal carcassesEntity activity confirmed; abnormal desiccation notedNo personnel losses. Test deemed too hazardous to repeat.
DIVISION SUMMARY
Total Operations Logged: 5
Confirmed Fatalities: 2
Missing / Presumed Lost: 2
Psychological Casualties: 2 (permanent reassignment)
Successful Captures: 0
Director’s Note (1974):
“Continued attempts at direct confrontation with BAY-LTC-1969-01 have yielded disproportionate loss rates. Entity displays indifference to artificial bait and lethal response to human presence. All capture efforts suspended. Sector to remain sealed under ecological cover story. Further engagement limited to remote acoustic monitoring.”
DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
DIRECTIVE ORDER — SECTOR BAY-19 (Evangeline Parish)
File ID: BAY-LTC-1969-01 / The Letchie
Classification: LEVEL 4 — CONTROLLED
Date of Issue: December 1974OPERATIONAL DIRECTIVE
Effective immediately, all capture and direct engagement efforts with BAY-LTC-1969-01 are suspended indefinitely.
Permitted Activities:
Remote acoustic monitoring via concealed hydrophones and parabolic mics.
Routine perimeter sweeps (daylight only).
Dissemination of cover narratives through state and parish offices (wildlife risk, flood hazard, alligator surge).
Prohibited Activities:
Use of bait, vocal playback, or loudspeakers within exclusion zone.
Unauthorized night operations.
Civilian research access (all requests routed through Baton Rouge front office for denial).
Public Containment Protocols:
Maintain 3 km exclusion zone around Lake des Cendres and adjacent waterways.
All signage and press releases to cite “unstable wetlands / ecological protection” as justification.
Local law enforcement briefed to treat trespassers as violators of wildlife code; detain and release with citation.
No public acknowledgment of anomalous presence under any circumstances.
DIRECTOR’S SEAL
“Our duty is no longer to test the waters but to keep others from drowning in them. BAY-19 is a listening post, not a battlefield.”
— Division Director █████ ███████DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
DIRECTORATE — OVERSIGHT COMMAND
ADDENDUM TO DIRECTIVE ORDER
File ID: BAY-LTC-1969-01 / The Letchie
Classification: LEVEL 5 — RESTRICTED / DIRECTORATE SEAL
Date of Issue: January 1975OVERSIGHT DIRECTIVE
By authority of the Directorate, BAY-19 is formally reclassified as a SURVEILLANCE-ONLY SECTOR.
All field divisions are instructed:
Cease Pursuit.
The entity has demonstrated consistent lethality and no vulnerability to conventional containment.
Further attempts at capture constitute dereliction of protocol.
Maintain Barrier.
Exclusion zone shall remain permanent, under ecological protection cover.
Civilian ingress must be deterred by local enforcement and federal liaison officers.
Monitor Anomalous Drift.
Acoustic signatures to be logged quarterly and archived under Identity Predation File Series.
Any confirmed expansion of vocal phenomena beyond the exclusion zone to be reported to Directorate within 24 hours.
Information Control.
All folkloric studies, journalistic inquiries, and parish rumor cycles to be tracked by Cover Bureau.
Public narratives (gator surge, bad water, unstable wetlands) to remain consistent.
DIRECTORATE SEAL NOTE
“We will not lose more agents to a voice in the dark. Our charge is not to chase shadows, but to preserve normalcy. Seal the swamp and let it whisper to itself.”
— Oversight Command, Directorate Resolution 75-1