Case File 06 — October 31, 1918

ASYLUM GIRL VANISHES FROM EASTERN HOMESTEAD
Burbank Tales Times — October 31, 1918 

WHAT CAUGHT OUR ATTENTION

This newspaper changes the geography of the story.

Until now, most of the strange events could be traced fairly closely to the asylum, cemetery or nearby land.

Not anymore.

A young girl has disappeared from a homestead farther away.

The circumstances are unsettling, but what interests us most is that the boundaries of the story appear to be expanding.

If these newspapers were collected because someone was investigating the asylum, why preserve this one?

There are several possibilities.

Perhaps the disappearance was simply another local tragedy that interested the collector.

Perhaps something in the article reminded them of an earlier event.

Or perhaps whatever they believed they were following was never confined to the asylum grounds in the first place.

That's an important distinction.

The first pages led us toward a building.

Then toward a cemetery.

Then toward the surrounding land.

Now the incidents appear capable of reaching beyond it.

We should also remember that these are only the pages recovered from the compartment. They are not consecutive issues, and there are substantial gaps between some of them.

We don't know what happened during those gaps.

There may once have been other newspapers.

There may have been fragments.

There may have been pages the collector never found.

Or there may have been pages that were deliberately removed.

Whatever this person was following, we are seeing only part of it.

FROM THE JOURNAL