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We’ve Done Something

I got an alert in the middle of the night from the camera I set up in the office that motion or sound had triggered it. I’m not sure what we did, but we did something.

 

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  1. Here’s a transcript of what I could get from this:

    [22 seconds in]:

    “With a keen mind, and an unfailing belief in the power of magiq, you have discovered a new episode of Ackerly Green’s Tales of Wonder. Tonight’s story is one of lost and regained hope, of mystery and magiq. Somewhere on the northeastern coast lies a quiet fishing town, and in it, a lost and lonely farmer, searching for a treasure his son, Methan (not sure about this), buried beneath tell-tale circles of stone. Our collector visits that town and seeks to find the answer to a rather curious question: how is a little boy still leaving gifts for his father, 30 years after his own disappearance?”

    music kick in and lasts for most of the rest of the video as room slightly get brighter

    1. That definitely describes us! Good work, Secret Society!

      @Saberlane – was that collected remotely? Have you been back to the office? Is everything still in place where you’d left it?

      1. Yeah, I saved it on my phone, @Augustus_Octavian. I got into the office yesterday and nothing was out of place. Nothing left behind. And no Woolie. Not sure what we did? I’ll be out of the city this weekend but I’ve had my eyes glued to the camera feed. One thing I noticed… the sounds of the other Ackerly Green aren’t happening any more frequently than they were before, but I swear they’ve gotten louder the past two days. Clearer.

    2. I just listened to this part again, and I believe it says “Our collector visits that town and seeks to find…”

      1. Thanks, Nim! I knew what I put sounded weird, so I’m happy that you caught this. The transcript above is edited to reflect the change.

  2. When there’s something strange in the neighborhood who ya gonna call…

    So one that music is very creepy and two I think it’s time to call an exorcist! :joy:

  3. Wow, that’s really creepy. But awesome news still! This looks to be the beginning to an old Ackerly Green episode, but where is the rest of the episode?

  4. we need to go track this guy down, if we can locate where exactly this is.

    ackerly green was based in NYC right? so northeast of there, on the coastline…?

    in that case, fire island, shirley, hampton bays, east hampton, or montauk? maybe even new shoreham?

  5. So there used to be an Ackerly Green radio show? Omg, I am so into this. :deirdreexcited:

    I wonder what’s next? We have to unlock more memories to get more of this episode? And, why this episode, specifically?

  6. For some reason I’m fine with the disembodied voice coming out of the ether. Once the creepy music started I would have noped the heck right out of there.

  7. coolcoolcool…that music filled my spook quota for the day. But I’m very intrigued. I’m thinking head to the googles (and probably Atlas Obscura) for northeast coastal towns with circle rocks…

  8. …Holy hex. Like, I know Sabes said there was a ghost, but like…yeah.

    A quick Google search came up with this “American Stonehenge” in New Hampshire: http://www.crystalinks.com/AmericasStonehenge.html

    I’m honestly more interested in what what happened with the little boy. A child disappearing but still communicating with this world…reminds me of Brandon Lachmann? Has that sort of thing happened before – travellers, I mean? And did this Tales of Wonder show air in our book? In the Book of the Wild? Is our ghost the father? The boy? Some other connection?

    1. If it wasn’t for the timing, I would say that the son is one of Those Who Did Not Die, like Brandon. However, the disappearance date doesn’t seem quite right for this story. We shouldn’t dismiss the idea, though.

  9. Okay. So the questions we have so far are:

    Where is this fishing area?

    Viv answered this with a search and found that it is in New Hampshire.

    What town is it?

    Salem (Thanks Viv)

    Is there more to this episode, and if there is, where is it?

    Where are the rest of these episodes?

    And has Saber contacted a priest or other individual for an exorcism?

  10. I started digging once I saw how far Salem, NH was from water. This is the first place actually in an area known (at some point) for fishing.

    There’s also this one. The nearby town doesn’t say anything about being known for fishing (unless it does with further digging), but it’s on a bay, so highly probable.

    Re: placement

    I know they’re technically West and South respectively on their land masses, but they’re NE in relation to AG.

  11. I’m not sure if this is a help or hinderance to point out, but the exact phrasing seems to be ‘Circles of Stone’ plural. I went back and listened to it a few times and I agree with Remus that it’s plural.

    Not sure if that means one location with many circles, or a few locations, hopefully near each other.

  12. Additional “awake” thoughts based on the clues that caused this creepy radio presentation to begin with:

    • our original clue said “A Circle of Stones,” as if only one were relevant

    • how does the “Swashbuckling Pirate” fit in? That’s (I think) the only clue not directly mentioned in the broadcast. Is this boy the pirate, with the buried treasure and all?

    • the broadcast does say “northeastern coast,” which I don’t think means “Northeast of AGP headquarters.” But yeah, I don’t really see any towns that fit all three requirements in our searches so far [NE, fishing, stone circle(s)]. Maybe our “Circle of Stones” isn’t as obvious as standing stones?

    • Is this collector possibly one we know about? I can’t hear the name clearly…maybe that could give us a hint as to the location/period of time?

  13. Holy cow. I’m gone for a freakin day due to finals and this happens. Seems to be a pattern for me. I definitely need this radio show. As far as pirates, Blackbeard’s treasure might be hidden on the U.S. east coast. I’d have to do more research to see if there are any others. Didn’t one of y’all have a location related to a pirate? Where was that and which one?

    I’ve got a presentation and then a research paper to do today but I can look for stuff later this week.

  14. guys.

    i think i have an idea.

    Whoever listens to LORE, re-listen to Episode 82. i think it sounds like one of the sites from that episode.

    im giving it another listen, to confirm, but Circle of Stones made me think.

    its either that or its Boston. Fairy mounds in the Boston Commons which can be circles made of stones, its a northeast coastal town, and has had fishing as an industry.

    1. I don’t know about the Lore episode, but I really doubt that it’s Boston because it specifically says that it’s a quiet fishing town. Boston hasn’t been a quiet place in hundreds of years, so unless the story is about one of the very early settlers, I don’t think it’s that. I’ll look into the Lore episode, though, unless we get another lead!

      1. Well, Woolie is dressed in very old clothing I believe. If these stories are memories of his, it could very well be from long ago. I’d keep the option open we could be talking about something hundreds of years old.

  15. Could the quiet fishing town be Greenport, in New York? It’s one of the few towns that has barely changed since it’s founding in the 1600’s. Also, the UK has plenty of fishing towns, it is to the NE, and had the circles of stones.

  16. Circles of stones make me thing of Native American Teepee (ack I think I spelled that wrong) rings.although those re all over the place so that maybe isnt specific enough.

  18. Okay, some time at a computer may have helped a little with another potential location…

    There are several circles of stone, and the Tomb of the Eagles was discovered by a farmer. One of the super important stones at one of the circles was destroyed by a separate farmer generations prior as well.

    Doesn’t say anything about treasure or a missing boy, but maybe that’s the mundane folk leaving things out?

  19. right, im gonna isolate the audio and see if i can enhance the audio of the collectors name. stand by.

    in terms of process thus far… basically i went into the vimeo video and pulled the url out of the “embed video” portion of the various tools offered. i then went onto the internet and found a free “download video links as an mp4 file” site, which ive used to isolate the video itself.

    i then opened it in a video editor i use called “shotcut” which lets me enhance portions of an audio file if i import a video as just said audio.

    Ive done it. His name is Wulfun, or something similar.

    https://agforum-media.s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/b567d30c399567a1f4c63df27be003c9c32b96e4.mp4

    https://agforum-media.s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/a/ae1962bc1e3fd577e96734fd55c6fb70ff6cf2fb.mp4

    after some further audio wizardry ( two pass normalization with a 10Decibel target, a low pass of 1848 hz with a dryness of 27.1%, a high pass of 2244 hz with a rolloff rate of 3 and a dryness of 38.3% and a boost of 23 Decibels), i have done everything i can do to this and im 99.9% sure its wulfuns

    also, here. have the entire broadcast isolated and crisped up.

    https://agforum-media.s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/7/7fa3cdc2698600bce7959e17ee56089238e08b7f.mp4

  21. sorry, i did a lot here, but i feel like its a good idea to leave my process incase anyone wants to learn how to do it themselves.

    yes, i made it easier to hear xD

  24. Okay, let’s pull apart the son’s name, if it’s really in there. That might tell us something like a country of origin where that name is more popular.

    It sure sounds like ‘Methan’ to me. Maybe it’s Ethan?

    Edit: It could be a verb and he’s saying ‘(something)’ and burried…’ but I can’t find a verb that works for that space.

  25. Also, while I don’t personally think this is important, someone should bring it up for our collective intellect to bear in mind. A son who dissappeared 30 years ago, but didn’t die. That sure has a parallel to Brandon Lachman. who was still alive and kicking 30 years after he died.

    I think that’s too neat of a bow to be the case…but it’s a fact to keep around just in case it’s important.

  26. Okay so the previous clues have all been near a AGSS Mountie so maybe this town is near one of us. If we’re going on the basis that all these clues point to one place then it should be easier to narrow down. So we have “A Collector of Tales” visiting “A Fishing Town” where a son, who’s “A Swashbuckling Pirate”, left “Buried Treasure” for “A Lost Father”. The treasur could be in “A Circle of Stones”. We know that the fishing village is in the north east but the question is the north east of where?

  27. I might have found our fishing village! So I was thinking about North East locations and I quickly ruled out America and Canada as they’re too big with too many variables. So I started looking at islands and it turns out that Brisbane is in the North East of Australia, has history in fishing, history with pirates and also has the Queensland Maritime Museum! So it looks like the town might be Brisbane where @Skylad is or somewhere near by!

    1. I can check the maritime museum out on Saturday, I’m not sure about the pirate though or the circle of stones… I could do some investigating though

        1. Plenty of parks (it’s Australia, we have room for days :joy::joy:) but nothing I can recall with a stone circle. There is a park area next to the maritime museum

  29. Are we also looking for the answer to the question: How is a son still leaving stuff for his father 30 years after his disappearance?

    1. Maybe? Probably in the long run. It could be the son dissappeared into Neithernor (maybe it’s Woolie?) and that’s why they could keep popping back to leave gifts now and then.

      I think if we unlock Woolie’s memories we’ll answer that question… or not. Darned if I know.

      1. We could be dealing with some kind of time magiq as well. kind of like in teh last few fragemnts when we were speaking across time with the chronocompass as our conduit. maybe the faerie stones have a matching set in neithernor, and cause time is weird, and magiq is in play, the gifts are getting there? or maybe the council of 18 gates (or at least i think thats what they’re called) have something to do with it?

  30. Not sure if somebody has mentioned this but isn’t northeast on the chronocompass Flinterforge. Could the fishing village have some connection to the Flinterforge?

  31. Could “northeast” have been a story element? Like the reader said northeast because it’s northeast of where they were. Ugh, there’s too many possibilities with this. Take “Circles of Stones” for instance. It could be legitimate circles of stones, it could also be the name of a ship, the name of a beach, or of a building. Though, if we are going for a circle of stone, this site fits okay, but doesn’t have anything that I can find to do with pirates, unless farmers robbing the tomb fits.

  36. I wasn’t in the office yesterday and came back to an office neighbor’s noise complaint tacked to the door. Nothing was different inside but this is what happened before Woolie showed up last time. Will keep you posted…

  37. “I KNOW YOU’RE DEAD BUT THAT DOESNT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO BUG US LIVING FOLK WITH YOUR HOWLING AND GHOST NOISES! KEEP IT DOWN UP THERE!”

    in essence.

    1. Yup, we’re doing this. Don’t care if it bends the laws of reality, I am either organizing or attending one of these raves at least once in my life.

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