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[Archivists note: Alleged excerpts from unpublished/unproofed manuscript of: Plants, Cats, Monoliths, and Ants: Unpacking the Mystery of Old House.]

Note from the editor: The no longer operational independent publisher “The Paranormal Page” reportedly rejected the full manuscript for being too chaotic, confusing, and disjointed. There’s a story, unverifiable, that the manuscript was dropped off on their doorstep bundled in cloth and twine like an abandoned infant. The entire thing was allegedly written by typewriter despite word processors being in existence for at least a decade or two. And the pages were dribbled with coffee stains and cocaine smears. That last detail would explain a lot.

Likely apocryphal legends aside, the main reason given for the manuscript’s rejection always ties back to the questionable sourcing, rambling flow, and historical inaccuracies. The fact a publisher steeped in paranormal crackpottery deemed this book too ridiculous to print should tell one everything they need to know. 

Also, please note it is unclear if the content below was written by the same author(s) responsible for the document described as “Excerpts from High Strangeness Events of the Pacific Northwest: A Compilation of Rare and Unexplained Documents…” Based on the wildly contradictory nature of the work, it is almost undisputed there are multiple authors. (Unless one conforms to the admittedly probable theory it is all a “hoax” devised by one person who read Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves a few too many times.)

As per usual: typos, blatant misinformation, confusing structure, and butchered grammar have not been altered. I will also be adding in my own commentary, denoted by anything contained within {{double curly brackets}}

Anything contained within ^^double up arrow symbols^^ was allegedly a hand written note scrawled either between the typewritten paragraphs, or in the margins.

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LOCATIONS OF INTEREST (LOI’S)

Baywood Isle

Part of the Northern Gulf Islands Archipelago in British Columbia Canada. Baywood Isle sits at a compact 19.32 km². It is one of the more isolated islands in the region, with no access by ferry and difficult docking conditions for civilian boats due to the rocky shores. 

The Island was purchased by billionaire Julian F. Abernathy (of Abernathy Aeronautics) in the mid 1970s. The reasons for this purchase vary wildly, from rumors of building a private lodge, a high-end resort, to independent (and/or US military funded) paranormal research facilities–(Abernathy’s personal fascination with UAP phenomena likely contributes to that last theory) . However, as far as any official narrative goes, the island has been sitting untouched since its purchase.

Aside from its rugged beauty, the area is well known for various sightings of lights in the sky AND in the water, not to mention the horrifying abduction stories. The famed S.S. Victoria Abduction among them (more on those tales in the fantastic, albeit, hard to find: “ABDUCTED: True accounts of otherworldly encounters in the Canadian Wilderness.”).

A colleague of mine personally visited Baywood Island in the 90s, and I will dive deeper into her experience in a later chapter. It is certainly worth sticking around for.

{{RE: “ABDUCTED” book. There are countless books titled “Abducted” but none I could find with that specific subtitle}}

{{RE: S.S. Victoria Abduction. I did some digging on this too and the only things I was able to find were a newspaper clipping and an audio recording of an interview with a supposed survivor on the S.S. Victoria fishing vessel. I have an assistant transcribing that, and will likely upload the full audio at a future date. As well as the newspaper clipping itself.  Point form summary: an entire fishing vessel was “lifted into the sky” by a diamond shaped and perfectly silent aircraft Only one man survived, washed up ashore on Baywood Island. His account, while far fetched, does not appear to be dishonest. Now let me be clear, that does not mean it is TRUE, it only means he BELIEVES it to be true.  Likely the vessel sank from hitting a rock, and he hallucinated the admittedly disturbing experience. The other details of his survival, while certainly unusual, are not unprecedented.}}