DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
AUDIO LOGS / TRANSCRIPTS — WLF-72 LOCAL INTERVIEWS
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Classification: LEVEL 4 — CLASSIFIED
Source: Regional law enforcement interviews, August–September 1972
Format: Cassette transfers, archived under WLF-72-AUD
TAPE 01 — INTERVIEW WITH R. THOMAS (General Store Clerk)
Q: You knew them? The █████ boys?
A: Not really. Came in for bait once in a while. The younger one kept his head down. Older one, Cal, did the talking. But the other fella—Dez? He was always chattering.
Q: About what?
A: Space men. Lights in the sky. Said the ridge line was “full of signs” if you knew how to look. Folks laughed him out of the store more than once.
TAPE 04 — INTERVIEW WITH L. WATKINS (Schoolteacher)
Q: You taught them?
A: Cal graduated before my time. Jamie sat quiet at the back. Never gave me trouble. Dez though—he was a character. Used to hand in essays about “strange visitors” instead of the assignment. Drew little maps of the woods with circles where the saucers landed.
Q: Did anyone worry?
A: Thought it was harmless. Just a boy with his head in the clouds. Guess the clouds got him.
TAPE 07 — INTERVIEW WITH C. DANNER (Gas Station Attendant)
Q: Remember seeing them that week?
A: Yeah. Cal filled up his truck, said they were headed up Hollow way. I told him it was a bad idea—too many sinkholes. The Dez kid piped up, said he wanted to camp where the “signals came through strongest.”
Q: Signals?
A: Radio bleed, he called it. Said the air was talking if you listened right. Gave me the creeps.
TAPE 12 — INTERVIEW WITH M. GREENE (Local Farmer)
Q: Ever cross paths with them?
A: Not the brothers. But Dez? Yeah. Came around asking if my cows ever acted strange at night. Said sometimes animals pick up things people can’t. Told me to “watch the tree line after midnight.”
Q: Did you?
A: Once. Didn’t see nothing. But the dogs barked at the dark like it had teeth.
TAPE 15 — INTERVIEW WITH S. JENKINS (Waitress, Green Hollow Diner)
Q: What do you recall about the missing boys?
A: Nothing much. But Dez was in here all the time, eating fries he couldn’t pay for, talking aliens with whoever would listen. Folks started calling him “Space Case.”
Q: Did he say why he was going camping?
A: Said he wanted to “catch proof on tape.” Thought he was hunting Martians, not… whatever took them.
ARCHIVE NOTE:
Local consensus in 1972: Dez framed as oddball “alien obsessor,” more memorable than the brothers.
After the disappearances, rumor pivoted from UFOs to “something in the Hollow.” Oral history later conflated Dez’s obsession with the current “Howler” legend.