DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
SITE-12B — CLASSIFIED NOTICES / INTERNAL MEMOS
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ENTITY REGISTRY REF: IMG-03 (“INVISIBLE MAN”)
CLASSIFICATION: LEVEL 4 — CONTROLLED
ACCESS: INTERNAL STAFF ONLY
PERIOD: 1992–1999 (archival set, recovered 2001)
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MEMO ROTATION — SELECTED EXCERPTS

NOTICE — 17 March 1993
From: Ops Commander ████
Subject: Canal Incident Debrief

  • Civilian casualty (Marvel). Note recovered in coat pocket: “He is right behind me.”

  • Directorate will attribute to industrial mishap. Local press already running “Canal Phantom” headline. Press suppression team dispatched.

  • Reminder: patrols keep flour bags in trunk for sweep drills. Not a joke.

BULLETIN — 09 November 1994
From: Site-12B Admin
Subject: Window Protocol Update

  • Kemp Residence incident revealed subject’s ability to manipulate window frames quietly.

  • Effective immediately: all perimeter checks include pressure-sensor retrofits on windows. Report any “phantom drafts.”

  • Town power station reports brownouts during storm nights — treat as possible IMG-03 cover.

DRILL ORDER — 12 May 1995
From: Training Officer H. ███
Subject: Answering Machine Mimicry Drill

  • Family Unit case confirms entity exploits household recordings.

  • Training rooms will now include fake answering machine cassettes to test agent response.

  • Rule of thumb: if the voice is kind, it isn’t him.

INTERNAL NOTE — 18 August 1996
From: Site-7C Coastal Station
Subject: Portside Cluster

  • Survivors report “hands pushing past” on stairwell. Camcorder static aligned with sonar logs.

  • Fun fact (for morale): locals still tell kids not to play hide-and-seek on deck after dark.

  • Less fun: three bodies unrecovered; Directorate ordered scuttling.

BREACH ALERT — 27 April 1998
From: Midlands Response Team
Subject: Market Town Exposure

  • Civilians organized paint-dust hunt. Three fatalities, multiple injuries.

  • Containment delayed by 9 minutes. Amateurs with torches nearly burned warehouse district.

  • Lesson learned: rumor containment is as important as anomaly containment.

ROTATION REMINDER — 14 January 1999
From: Psych Services
Subject: Survivor Interviews

  • Survivors (Hall, Kemp, Constable J.) exhibit recurring paranoia. Schedule 6-month check-ins.

  • One note: Hall now refuses to live without light on. Kemp tapes over every seam in his curtains. Constable still insists he “feels” dust shift when no one’s near.

  • Keep case notes sealed. Town folklore has adopted the term “Hollow Man.” Do not repeat in official logs.

HUMOR NOTICE — Posted to Rec Room, 1995
“Rules for Living in a Griffin Town” (unofficial, hand-typed):

  1. Don’t trust a friendly voice in the dark.

  2. Don’t walk canals after midnight.

  3. Don’t let the innkeeper tell you ghost stories.

  4. If flour’s missing from kitchen stock, check your team leader’s boots.

(Unsigned — but handwriting matches Sgt. █████).

ANALYST’S NOTE (ARCHIVAL)

The cadence of these memos reflects a site stretched thin — half clinical, half gallows humor. Staff understood the danger but learned to joke to keep sane. Small facts about the town seep through: the power brownouts, canal mist, market gossip. They anchor IMG-03 not as a legend, but as a pressure felt in every hallway of the Hollow Ward.

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END FILE — CLASSIFIED NOTICES / INTERNAL MEMOS (IMG-03)

DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
SITE-12B — DAILY BULLETIN BOARD (ARCHIVE COPY, 1995)
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CLASSIFIED — LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED
Property of Site-12B. Do not remove from wall.

MONDAY — 03 APRIL 1995
DRILL REMINDER: Dust-sweep practice at 0900 hrs in Hangar 2. Bring your own flour bags. [margin note: “who keeps stealing them for pancakes?”]

SECURITY ALERT: Window sensors in Wing B malfunctioned again. Maintenance blames brownouts from town substation. Treat all drafts as potential perimeter breaches.

WEDNESDAY — 05 APRIL 1995
MEMO: Answering machine tapes in Training Room 4 updated. If you hear a “kind voice,” you fail. Report to psych after for debrief.

CASUALTY REPORT (REDACTED): One operative ████ sustained lacerations during grapple exercise. Dust scatter confirmed. He is stable.

FRIDAY — 07 APRIL 1995
LOCAL INTEL: Market town gossip rising again. Tavern chatter calls it “Hollow Man.” Suppression team will buy up next week’s newspaper run. Don’t repeat the phrase.

RESEARCH UPDATE: Compound A-R sample stable at 4°C. Serum trial on ovine subject showed 80% attenuation. Antidote reversed after 11 min. Subject disoriented but alive. [margin note in pen: “sheep still walks into walls.”]

SUNDAY — 09 APRIL 1995
BREACH DRILL: Simulated mimicry broadcast on intercom caused 4 staff to answer without challenge code. Repeat the phrase until it becomes muscle memory: “Iron walls, hollow halls.”

NOTICE: Coffee machine finally repaired. Keep mugs off secure consoles. Last week’s spillage shorted a LIDAR sweep.

PINNED SCRAP (handwritten, coffee stain):

If you can’t see him —
• Throw flour.
• Listen for wrong footsteps.
• Never go alone.

— Sgt. ███ (scribbled)

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SITE-12B ROTATION MEMO ARCHIVE
Filed: 1995-04-10
Redacted Copy — Authorized for training use.

DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
ARCHIVAL AUDIO LOGS — IMG-03 (“INVISIBLE MAN”)
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CASE PERIOD: 1992–1999
MEDIA: Standard C60 cassettes (reel digitized 2003)
FILE STATUS: CLASSIFIED — LEVEL 4
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TAPE A1 — INTERVIEW WITH [███ HALL], 1992
(Location: Village inn, taped on portable recorder, heavy hiss present)

AGENT: Can you describe him?
HALL: Not… not him, really. Just the space he took. A draft where no draft should be. Dishes broken, chairs pushed in after I left the room. I heard coins moving in the drawer, but when I looked, there was nothing.

AGENT: Did you ever see him directly?
HALL: No. Just the shadow that wasn’t there. (pause) He paid in cash. Always exact change. I told myself he was polite. Polite men don’t breathe behind your ear when you’re alone in the kitchen.

TAPE B2 — INTERVIEW WITH NEIGHBOR (MARVEL CASE), 1993
(Location: canal-side police van, ambient rain on mic)

AGENT: You knew Mr. Marvel?
NEIGHBOR: He was jumpy that week. Said he had a lodger, or a master, couldn’t tell. Kept muttering, “He’s right behind me.” Then he stopped coming ‘round.

AGENT: What did you think was happening?
NEIGHBOR: Look—Marvel was a drinker. We all thought he’d made up a bogeyman. But when they found him by the canal? His head caved in like something swung hard. And no one saw a soul. That’s worse than a bogeyman.

TAPE C3 — INTERVIEW WITH DR. KEMP, 1994
(Location: hospital room, heart monitor beeping faintly)

KEMP: I knew him before. Griffin. Brilliant, arrogant, obsessed. He thought invisibility would make him more human, if you can believe it. Not less. He said, “Imagine walking free of reputation, free of stares.”

AGENT: And what changed?
KEMP: Everything. The serum didn’t just strip him from sight. It stripped his… boundaries. He was cruel before, yes, but not like this. Invisibility gave him permission. He thought the world owed him fear.

AGENT: Do you believe he can be cured?
KEMP: (long silence) Cure him? Or cage him? Because he doesn’t want the first. He’ll only ever accept the second.

TAPE D4 — INTERVIEW WITH CONSTABLE J. █████, 1994
(Location: precinct office, occasional coughs, paper shuffling)

CONSTABLE: I grabbed him, or something of him. Felt ribs, a shoulder. He twisted like a snake. Dust went everywhere. He laughed—it was his laugh I can’t forget. No echo, no chest, just in the air.

AGENT: Did you believe he was still human?
CONSTABLE: Human enough to break my arm. But nothing about it felt like a fight with a man. More like wrestling with air that hated me.

TAPE E5 — INTERVIEW WITH [REDACTED FAMILY SURVIVOR], 1995
(Location: child welfare office, low mic volume)

AGENT: Can you tell me what happened?
SURVIVOR (child): He sounded like Dad. He said, “It’s alright, come here.” But it wasn’t him. I stayed in the crawlspace. I didn’t come out till the light came back. (sniff) Dad doesn’t sound kind anymore. Not in my head.

TAPE F6 — PORTSIDE CREW SURVIVOR, 1996
(Location: debrief room, muffled ship horns audible outside)

CREW: The sea was loud, but he was louder. Boots on the deck. You could feel him in the boards. Hands shoved past me on the stairwell—no body, just the push. He didn’t need to kill us all. He wanted to see who would scream first.

TAPE G7 — MARKET TOWN WITNESS, 1998
(Location: town hall, cassette tape warbles)

WITNESS: We thought we could flush him out with flour and nets. We sang to keep courage. But the air was everywhere. People fell. Torches went out. It wasn’t a hunt. It was him watching us hunt shadows.

ARCHIVAL NOTE

These civilian tapes circulated internally under “Appendix IMG-03/A-Vox.” Some copies leaked to off-books agents in the late 1990s and resurface occasionally as urban legend cassettes—rumored to have been uploaded years later to private servers. Public cover story remains: “poltergeist hysteria, mass delusion.”