Missing Persons Appear Exiting Fog

-Notion City, March 7th, 1920 Front Page

After over weeks of disappears a few people have been reported as returning to their homes. The police had informed us that many missing persons reports have been dropped by those who submitted them. When reached for comment many of those people have responded that their loved ones have returned to them.

Though, many have also been admitted to the hospital. While happy of their return, many are now concerned for the mental health of those lost. Most were reported as having hallucinations among other symptoms of mental illness while on the other side of the Fog. Some who had disappeared from the start even claimed that they had only been gone five minutes.

However odd these occurrences might be there seem to be no common themes other than some form of hallucination and time distortion. However, some claim to have even been gone months. These symptoms are baffling doctors, who are struggling to determine what sort of effects the Fog is having on the minds of these individuals.

We were able to sit down and talk with one of the returned individuals.

"It was a strange place," remarked David Kelly, a middle aged grocer. "I remember I was driving out of town to get my produce when out of no where, I was on some mountain pass just missing the cliff's edge. I got out and looked behind me. But the city was gone. I wandered maybe for days, until I was greeted by this creature."

Mr. Kelly continued at the length about the creature and it was difficult to not see the similarities between this and other creatures who have begun to appear throughout the city. Still no word from city officials yet, though the Mayor's speech is tonight. Perhaps he is simply waiting until that time to make a statement.

They're Real

-Notion City March 6th, 1920 Letters to the Editor

I've heard a lot of speculation that these "creatures" that have been cropping up are not real. A lot of people point to the article from your previous issue decrying these as a hoax, mostly for publicity or just laughs. But I'm here to tell you they are real. And frighteningly so.


I thought nothing of it when my daughter mentioned her new imaginary friend, Mr. Brownie. Children can come up with all sorts of exaggerated stories. And from my understanding, he was quite helpful in getting her to do her chores. Her room has never looked cleaner, so if it got the results done how bad could it be?

That all changed yesterday.

I was passing by her room. It was time for her usual afternoon tea party and she was carrying on a pleasant conversation with Mr. Brownie. The door was open just a crack so I decided to get a peak inside. That's when I finally saw what her imaginary friend looked like. He was squat, no taller than my little girl. Maybe three feet tall. Gangly. Thin limbs which were mostly bone and skin. Yet bulbousy in his belly. He wore clothes from a time long ago, maybe a century.

I only looked at him for a second for the fear of a strange creature in my daughter's room took hold of me. And I burst through the door. But when I came in the room he was no longer there. And my daughter has not seen him since.

My mother used to believe in such things, she said they were around all the time she called them brownies. She died well before my daughters birth. And I never told her such stories. I don't know if the creature was the same as the one my mother told me about all those years ago. And I'm sure people will just write me off as another hoax. But I know that in the back of their minds they'll see they're lying to themselves. Because we've all seen them at some point now. Those creatures from our parents' stories.

Yours,
Believing Mother

Sightings of Strange Creatures in City.

Three "creatures" spotted in Center City Park February 29, 1920

Photo courtesy of Dr. Henry Greenbriar of Notion City University.