the world we live in is full of things we don't understand being the curious humans that we are we naturally try and seek these things out doing so has led to remarkable discoveries and inventions that we never could have imagined a hundred years ago we have defeated diseases built to the sky itself and even created machines that could take us beyond the clouds and into the stars if our ancestors could see us and what we have created I'm sure many of them would see us as gods our innate curiosity and lust for knowledge has not always led us to greatness however true evil and darkness have also been uncovered in humanity's conquest of knowledge and in the end I fear this evil will be our doom I do not say this from the standpoint of a great philosopher who was sat and simply pondered things either no I say this because I have seen it experienced it I was a part of it the event I'm about to relay to you is true in its entirety this I swear I feel certain that this will fall on deaf ears as many of you will believe this to be just another spooky story meant to give you cheap thrills but I promise you that this is neither my intent nor my purpose the purpose of this story is to simply warn you of what lurks beyond the veil of what we can see and understand to show you what awaits us in a darkness even if I myself don't understand it what I'm about to tell you has happened and I feel certain it will happen again in 1971 and not so well known scientists began preparations for an extremely secretive project known simply as the Harbinger experiment I would like to keep the identity the scientists the secret for personal reasons so throughout this recounting I will refer to him as Zimmerman Zimmerman's background is unclear at best beyond 1971 all that is known about him before that time is that he had grown up somewhere in Maryland with a strange fascination of the occult and supernatural this later made him an outcast among his fellow scientists due to how scoffed upon the metaphysical was and still is at the time Zimmerman's opinions concerning the otherworldly were not the sole cause of him being an outcast though it was his methods that made him widely unaccepted among his peers Zimmerman was well known during his time for being ruthless and cold beyond measure he never cared about the means all that mattered to him was results and if he predicted the results to be valuable enough anything would be worth obtaining them it was this insatiable and brutal lust for the truth that made him feared among those that knew of him and the few that knew of him and did not fear him believed in him and followed him and his work very closely the word harbinger itself as such a mystery and intimidating taste to it maybe it's the way it rolls off our tongues or maybe it's simply due to its association with the project but the word always seems to carry a certain amount of doom with it which would make sense the word itself means the war nor forbode I find imagine Zimmerman's reason for giving the experiment this title but in retrospect it fits perfectly Zimmerman came to a select view me being one of them he told us he was working on something big and that he needed people who could keep confidentiality and not spread idle gossip of his work while he did not fully trust some of us he did know that we were professionals and that for some reason or another we were all in dire need of employment I had worked at the local clinic as a doctor but I was caught stealing medication and was promptly fired this left a very dark mark on my resume so work was hard to find I was also a native to Alaska and lived near where the experiment would take place so I guess you could say I was a convenient choice as you can imagine I jumped at the opportunity it was hard not to when I saw the payout 15 of us were hired in total some were colleagues of his that had been working with him for a while some were maintenance workers and a few were hired as private security I was the only medical professional to be hired it is still a wonder to me how we even attained the funds necessary for the experiments I would not be wholly surprised if his financing was not entirely legal but legal or not I needed the money and he was paying looking back it's a decision I have come to regret after Zimmermann obtained his money he used it to buy a relatively large plot of land deep in the frozen wilderness of Alaska and upon that piece of land Zimmerman built a concrete structure not dissimilar to a bunker in fact the sole difference being that its goal was to keep any potential damage contained within the structure rather than keeping out as he put it most of the structure dug underneath the earth which had the effect of making the underground complex seemed so much smaller than it really was from the outside as would be expected there was only one way of entering it and leaving the underground structure and it was via a ladder that led from a small unassuming concrete building on the surface which I will refer to from now on as the entrance building for convenience to the network below after everyone had gone to bed at night the hatch that contained the ladder would be sealed off with a very large and thick metal lid Zimmerman was very strict about this located not too far away from the entrance building was a series of wooden cabins that would serve as a sleeping quarters for the staff Zimmerman had hired compared to the entrance building standing on the surface the underground system was massive at the center of the complex was the control room this is where the facility's electronics and such were linked to this included security cameras lights and door controls consoles monitors and computers lined the walls of this large central chamber this is also where the ladder in the entrance building connected to in the underground complex connected to the control room with three doors one that led to a smaller room that served as the infirmary another led to a break room and the last door led into the hallways the hallways are where the complex began to feel extremely eerie they were for some reason laid out in an extremely confusing scheme that led in circles and to complete dead ends these hallways made up a vast majority of the complex and it would be very easy to get lost in the maze if you were unfamiliar with the complex but if you knew where you were going you would find yourself standing before one of three eight by eight foot rooms before long each room had a camera hooked up to one of the corners of the room and all three of those cameras were connected to a corresponding monitor in the control room cameras were also scattered throughout the hallways so that whoever was watching their corresponding monitor could see anywhere they wanted to when they wanted to thick metal doors stood at the entrance to each of the three eight by eight foot rooms and in order to open them you would have to enter a four-digit code into a panel located near the door I remember when I first arrived at the complex how badly the hallways frightened me I have always been claustrophobic you see and those hallways were so very narrow the noise or more accurately the lack of noise was also a tremendous source of fear for me in those bleak narrow hallways it was always so unnaturally silent as if the entire world had stopped moving it really made you feel you were trapped down there thankfully though I only rarely ventured into those hallways for I was the only medical professional in the facility and I had virtually no reason to go into them in the beginning I found it so peculiar that zimmermann were asked for a medical professional like me on a project like this but by the time it was all over I understood why the official purpose of the Harbinger experiments was the test and observed the effects of extended isolation on the human mind this is what was listed on the reports being sent out at least but unbeknownst to all those who were not participating their project excluding the subjects the true purpose was much darker like I said before Zimmerman had always had an obsession with the occult and supernatural he sought to prove himself to those who did not believe in him he wanted physical proof that the supernatural was real phenomenon and he wanted to be the first one to attain said proof the true purpose of the Harbinger experiment was the find proof of the metaphysical a world we could not see the thought of doing this was naturally a tad bit daunting and even scary but he was Zimmerman's method of doing so that was truly terrifying Zimmerman believed that he would be able to open a portal between worlds momentarily allowing three random entities to cross over to our world and each one of these beings would be trapped within one of the three rooms Zimmerman had the theory that any entity would try and latch on to the nearest living thing that had the capacity for it he wanted to use this technique to trap a spirit in a physical form by allowing it to enter a living being that had been injected with a compound mixture of Zimmerman's creation in theory this compound would keep the entity from simply leaving whatever it was attached to the only way that it would be able to leave a host who had been injected with a compound was through death according to simmerman the host would have to be something living with a will strong enough to survive the possession and there is only one known species that possesses the amount of will required for this humans Zimmerman had also done something to ensure that the entities would only enter the three rooms and there would only be one entity in each room though I cannot say I know what exactly he did in fact I know Nixon nothing when it comes to how Zimmerman managed to do what he did he liked to keep his methodology a secret most of his trusted colleagues most likely due to his paranoia that someone would steal his ideas and take credit for the success of said ideas if I had known that this was the true purpose before I signed up I may have reconsidered the zimmerman decided not to tell us until we were all gathered at his fortress even if any of us wanted to leave i doubt we would have been allowed to do so the security team zimmerman if hired was loyal to him and the payout it is not likely that zimmerman had given them the order to not allow anyone to leave there were three different subjects included in the experiments all were native to Alaska and each one was lured into the project under the belief that they would be participating in a harmless study on the effect of isolation on the human mind as I mentioned before which is why none of the subjects objected when they realized that there would be confined to one of the three rooms that I had mentioned earlier the first subject was a young man he was apparently out of work and desperately needed the money that had been offered for participating in the study the second was a woman by looking at her I could tell she was an addict of some sort the third and final subject was an older man a drifter if I had to guess one thing that they all had in common was that none of them had any family or friends left in short no one would miss them which is why they were chosen for the project I'm sorry I wish I could supply more information about the subjects but all of this has been drawn from memory and I was given little information on the three to begin with the experiment did not officially begin until 1987 sixteen years after its original announcement I was eager to begin so I packed up and headed out to the complex as soon as I could I arrived at the compound a week before the subjects had even signed up and a whole month before the project's even began I was not the first to arrive by any means when I got there Zimmerman and his colleagues and the security team had already arrived I suppose you could say I was among the people Zimmerman did not trust him arrived first everyone had arrived about a week before the experiment began there was a noticeable rift between those who were there simply for the money like me and those who were followers of Zimmerman on October 15th 1997 all the preparations were in place the subjects had been sealed in their rooms the cameras lights and speakers were fully operational and all the staff members had settled in the time had come for the experiment to officially begin Zimmerman asked everyone to report to the control room around 9 p. m. to witness the beginning of the experiments he wanted everyone to be present when he proved that all his theories had been correct and that he was not just a madman he wanted us all to see the fruits of his labor when everyone had finally gathered in a large control room Zimmerman turned to us and simply said observe he then turned back to us leaned into the microphone that would reject his voice through the three rooms and then he began chanting in a strange language that I feel certain no one but Zimmermann could understand we all observe the three large monitors on the wall silently waiting for something to happen the subjects all stood in their room dumbstruck by simmerman chanting staring at the monitors with confused expressions on their faces after about five minutes I felt something awful I cannot explain what exactly it was but a horrible feeling of dread washed over me riddling me with fear it was then that the ground actually began to shake subtly and the lights began to flicker Zimmermann continued chanting into the microphone as if nothing was awful wrong while the subjects began dashing around the rooms screaming for help then suddenly the ground stopped shaking and the monitors image turned a static the air began to become very heavy as we all stared at the monitors waiting for them to regain their image and show us what was happening or had happened in those three rooms for a while all was silent but then there was screaming the screams of a woman going through unbearable pain terror began to echo through the compound the similar screams of men began to coincide with the woman's terrified screams and together they mixed into an awful symphony of pain and fear that beat mercilessly into is those of us who were here for the money began to give each other scared looks while those loyal to Zimmermann seemed completely unfazed we wanted to leave and never come back to this awful place but we all knew deep down that Zimmermann would never allow it to happen we were here for the long haul and there was no escape it was 10:13 p.
m. when the screaming finally stopped the monitor said yet to reveal to us what had occurred in those three rooms as soon as the screaming ended Zimmermann stood and dismissed us all for the night adding that we were all forbidden to come back into the compound until 10 a. m.
