DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA

ENTITY REGISTRY – ACTIVE ANOMALY FILE

ENTITY DESIGNATION: EDN-01

Codename: “Eden” / “Elira”
Classification: LEVEL 5 — RESTRICTED / TEMPORAL ANOMALY (Western Witch Variant)
Location: [REDACTED], California desert sector (abandoned facility within active temporal shroud)
Status: Active / Confined to Shroud Loop (Dec 25–31, 1999)

BEHAVIORAL PROFILE

Appearance:

  • Female, barefoot, early 20s (approx.). Height/weight indeterminate due to distortion.

  • Habitually garbed in white, homespun garments; wax streaks across fabric common.

  • Body often marked by red-string bindings around wrists and ankles; unknown whether symbolic or functional.

  • Subject often accompanied by low-fidelity hum detectable on both tape and open-air mics.

Demeanor:

  • Primarily soft-spoken, detached, childlike cadence.

  • Shifts into ritual dominance mode during ceremonies — voice firm, command of group absolute.

  • Affect incongruous: displays tenderness while sanctioning ritual deaths; gentle voice used during violent acts.

Anomalous Expressions:

  • Wax Manifestation: Exudes molten wax from palms/eyes. Ignition not required; burns at anomalously stable temperature. Residue has persisted in laboratory conditions outside shroud (Catalogued Sample EDN-01-A).

  • Temporal Distortion: Voice playback often reversed, layered, or pitched beyond human range. Environmental anomalies reported: mirrors ripple, clocks desynchronize, lights flicker in stuttered cadence.

  • Narrative Perception: Repeated verbal claims: “I wasn’t born, I was drafted” and “I remember other versions.” Indicates subject perceives herself as character written within external authorship.

  • Miracle Theater: Publicly staged phenomena — mirror duplications, binding string phenomena, apparent healings (classified as memetic reinforcement rituals). Cult confessions (Tape Logs 23-D through 25-F) cite these as proofs of authority.

  • Hum Vector: Low-frequency vocalization induces synchronized chanting among followers. Described as “the frequency of Eden.”

RELATIONAL DYNAMICS

  • Silas (POI-SLS): Former Catholic priest, presumed deceased. Served as public voice of cult, but consistently deferred to EDN-01. Self-described as “the knock” while she was “the door.” Final cassette records suggest voluntary sacrifice at Spiral ritual. Relationship: devotional/paternal.

  • Andrew (POI-AND): Clergyman recovered in 2025. Tapes indicate subject’s tone softens around him; refrains from lethal action. Evidence strongly suggests she erased memories rather than executing him. Andrew intermittently re-emerges in modern timeframe before being reabsorbed into shroud. Relationship: intimate/adversarial, unresolved.

  • Cult Membership (WRD-66 / “The Fold”): Followers renounce names, assume symbolic titles. Function as expendable sacrificial fuel during Ascension sequence. Eden displays a quasi-maternal affect — touching faces, blessing foreheads — immediately prior to their deaths. Relationship: utilitarian/ritualistic.

CONTAINMENT NOTES

  • Shroud Binding: EDN-01 appears fixed to the shroud’s temporal loop (Dec 25–31, 1999). Exiting loop may require collapse of shroud, risk level indeterminate.

  • Shroud Breach Vector: Andrew’s periodic reappearance in 2025 confirms permeability. Possible tether to EDN-01.

  • Surveillance Protocols:

    • Long-range analog cameras and tape recorders placed along perimeter.

    • Digital instruments frequently return corrupted metadata locked to 1999.

    • All audio quarantined; playback restricted to Level 4 memetic labs.

  • Engagement Rules:

    • Field entry requires full memetic PPE, analog tether lines, two-person redundancy.

    • Reflective surfaces to be avoided.

    • All digital clocks, watches, and counters to be disabled prior to entry.

  • Hazard Level: HIGH. Psychological hazard (compulsion), sacrificial compulsion vector, possible authorial manipulation. Containment priority: observational only.

RESEARCH NOTES (Partial / Redacted)

  • Folkloric Parallels: Subject matches archetype of “witch” anomaly in Western American context — use of mirrors, binding cords, ritual healings. Distinction: displays narrative awareness not typically observed in witch-class entities.

  • Loop Hypothesis: Consensus holds EDN-01 is anchor entity for shroud stability. Removal may collapse loop; collapse could cause uncontrolled temporal breach. Directorate has withheld intervention.

  • Andrew Vector: Observed memory edits indicate subject exercises selective authorial control over individuals. Reabsorption cycles suggest Andrew is “unfinished draft,” tethered between 1999 and 2025. Continued monitoring required.

  • Sample Analysis: Wax samples (EDN-01-A) remain anomalous; burn at constant 333°C, unaffected by airflow or environment. Suggested as possible ritual energy residue.

ENTITY DESIGNATION: ARC-01

Codename: “The Archivist”
Classification: LEVEL 6 — EYES ONLY / DIRECTORATE ACCESS ONLY
Status: [DATA EXPUNGED]
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REFERENCE: See File ARC-01 (Directive Eyes Only). Unauthorized access will be logged and prosecuted.

DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA

ENTITY REGISTRY – ACTIVE ANOMALY GROUP FILE

GROUP DESIGNATION: WRD-66

Codename: The Cult of the Word / Right Hand of God
Classification: LEVEL 5 — RESTRICTED / MEMETIC RELIGIOUS ANOMALY
Location: [REDACTED] California desert sector (abandoned chapel and compound, enclosed within active temporal shroud).
Status: Active / Confined to Loop Interval (Dec 25–31, 1999).

GROUP PROFILE

Nature: WRD-66 is not a conventional religious sect but a memetic structure orbiting around entity EDN-01 (“Eden/Elira”). Members forfeit names, assume symbolic titles (e.g., Flame, Page, Echo). They conduct nightly cassette “confessions,” prayers to the Spiral, and ritualized tape chants known as “the hum.”

Daily Praxis (as recorded on tapes 12–29):

  • Self-erasure: followers renounce personal names, replace with archetypal symbols.

  • Cassette testimony: nightly recordings, monitored and archived by leadership.

  • Red string / mirror rites: objects bound, mirrors angled to refract candlelight into spiral patterns.

  • Vigil chants: rhythmic hums to “tune” to EDN-01’s frequency.

  • Sacrificial Ascension: followers willingly consumed to “fuel the Spiral.”

Doctrine (outer circle / recruitment):

  • The world is a draft, flawed and temporary.

  • Written with God’s “left hand” (imperfection, suffering).

  • Only the “right hand” can write the ending — perfection, freedom from memory and pain.

  • January 1, 2000 is the “final edit.”

Doctrine (inner circle / core cult):

  • Reality is authored. Most humans are static characters.

  • EDN-01 is author-aware, able to glitch narrative seams.

  • To be chosen (“Glow”) is to be edited into permanence.

  • The Spiral ritual severs the false self and steps into the real world.

OBSERVED “BOOK-MIRACLES”

Field reports and cassette testimony detail phenomena now classified as Book-Miracles (anomalous expressions linked to EDN-01):

  • The Dog-Eared Flesh: skin creases fold like page corners; subject insists life has “skipped ahead.”

  • Bleeding Redactions: black bars crawl across skin; confidants forget memories linked to subject.

  • The Margins Whisper: voices annotate live prayers as if from unseen margins.

  • The Chapter Spill: convulsions produce vomited paper fragments describing present events.

  • Ink Veins: veins darken into reversed scripture; vocalization causes ambient tape-skip.

  • The Errata Mark: smudge imprint on forehead rewinds subject’s disobedient actions.

  • The Unbound: Bibles detonate, pages adhere to skin as living tattoos.

  • Glossary Vision: dying subjects recite dictionary entries of their own lives.

Book-Miracle Healings (classified as “subtractive mercy”):

  • Erased Line: scars/pain vanish, along with memory of injury.

  • Inserted Passage: scripture implanted into subject’s speech; fever breaks.

  • Corrected Draft: bones realign; gait becomes “imitated.”

  • White-Out Breath: burns/marks fade, skin blank as paper.

  • Skipped Chapter: suffering excised; others perceive discontinuity.

  • Marginal Note: temporary relief inscribed into flesh as faint letters.

Interpretations (per tapes / recovered Vatican notes):

  • Followers: “She gave me my life back.”

  • Andrew: “She erased what hurt, and something more.”

  • Sebastian: “She is cutting and pasting souls.”

  • Silas: “The Word heals its own margins.”

LEADERSHIP

  • EDN-01 (“Eden/Elira”): Anomaly at center of cult. Performs Book-Miracles, manipulates ritual energy, exhibits authorial awareness. Treated as living scripture.

  • Silas Reed (POI-SLS): Former Catholic priest. Public voice of the Fold. Known to Vatican for theological disobedience. Viewed himself as herald, ultimately sacrificed.

  • The Fold: Rank-and-file membership. Youth indoctrinated early; rituals revolve around willingness to be unmade in service to Eden.

THREAT ASSESSMENT

  • Memetic Spread: Cassette tapes mailed anonymously to diocesan offices in Oregon and abroad. Material includes glitched sermons, reversed hymns, cult propaganda. Risk of secondary infection via playback.

  • Anomalous Hazard: Book-Miracles display consistent ontological editing. Hazards include memory excision, timeline skips, and narrative re-writes of physical bodies.

  • Temporal Anchor: Cult rituals appear to have locked the compound into the Dec 1999 Y2K interval, preserved by EDN-01. Outside perception registers as invisible shroud; inside, countdown to midnight continues perpetually.

RELATION TO DAP / VATICAN CASE FILES

  • Andrew (POI-AND): Recovered in 2025. Functions as tether; breaks free for days/weeks, then vanishes and reappears at pickup site. Amnestic regarding cult but occasionally vocalizes chants.

  • Sebastian (POI-SBS): Presumed dead. Logs recovered up to Dec 31, 1999. Fragmented, memetically contaminated.

  • Silas: Dead by ritual sacrifice (unconfirmed, presumed).

  • Eden: Remains active within shroud. Considered anchor entity.

CONTAINMENT NOTES

  • Current Status: No confirmed access to interior of shroud. Perimeter surveillance maintained.

  • Do Not:

    • Do not circulate cassette artifacts beyond Level 4 labs.

    • Do not attempt direct rescue of interior subjects.

    • Do not read recovered text fragments aloud.

  • Protocol: Observation only. EDN-01 removal may collapse shroud; Directorate has not authorized breach.

  • Hazard Rating: Severe. Classified as Narrative-Active Group Hazard.