Grinner's Journal 1

# Grinner's Journal Entry #1

The whole time this park has been around people have been reporting these sorts of shadows. It became part of the places reputation for the seventy plus years it's been standing. Every couple years there's a new siting surrounding the park and the reporters in the small town it resides in get there fill of blowing it out of proportion, since nothing else ever happened to the town. They even report on the park over actual new half the time, they know the simple people in this town.

Some Half drunken grandpa at the park will say they saw a reflection in the corner of there eye in the bathroom and spread it on #### Land's social media. Then the cavalry sitting on there branch see the bait, swoop in, and get caught in the net the attention seeker set. They start by saying the "House of many Mirrors" Attraction is HAUNTED for the third time that year saying "the \*shadowed\* are hurting people within the walls of the house", or "a child is missing" or, my favorite,

"A LITTLE GIRL WAS SEEN WALKING IN AND OUT OF THE MIRRORS!!!" I love it when they use the super natural, because there is no way to disprove something out of this world with real world tests. Only the scummiest ones go for that. Scaring every tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist in the damn town. Others like connecting it to the old mines a mile away from the town, saying the dead miners that died by a cave in were seeking refuge at ######### Land. That mine always had a weird calling towards me.

Ever since I was a kid I always had adventures with my friends in those mines for about a good few years we always loved exploring and spending the night in it, seeing how far we could go deeper and deeper still into the rock until are own imagination chased us out with a ghost, or moans coming from deep within the cave. All of us, me ted, joe, and ben had a blast in those caves. We all stopped after Joe slipped on a slick rock a couple twists and turns into the mines. He fell ten feet down

head first on a smooth rock, no bigger than the palm of my hand. We hollered for him, waiting for a response, Afraid he was dead, we quickly scaled down there thinking a rusty railroad spike punctured the back of his head. To our relief it was only a rock that did the trick, bastard, nocked cold by a little rock. We managed to get him out with the ramp left at the other side of the bit by the old miners. We pushed the ramp, ran up it and got an ambulance to get him taken care of.

We were forbidden from returning to the mines, our parents kinda hated it the whole time anyway. A quick rundown of the shape of the place you could tell it wasn't abandoned "suddenly" as most ghost stories would have you believe, There was a steady decline the farther off you went in some paths while others had that more "sudden" feeling. Slowly losing more and more workers by the day, until it all came crashing down. On the bosses that is, we searched the entire place looking for clues

on where the ghost stories originated from. We found an old office where records of all sorts were, we would read them from time to time and never found record of the popular cave in theory, however, With the place having a bad enough reputation as it is, I Wouldn't be surprised if the records were "lost". Back at the ######### Land the tiny news agency's were having the time of there life with the newest, hottest story. Apparently an entire family disappeared into thin air.

You couldn't even imagen what sort of troglodyte level bullshit they were saying. The family was kidnaped, the family was killed, the family killed themselves. This was there big break since people were getting self aware of how full of it the media in this town was. But wright when something happens, the media acts like the hero spreading all sorts of false narratives around. This is when I began my investigation. Seeing the old memorial they built for the family,

It was built at the last place the family was spotted, it was the ride appropriately named "The Missing Link". While asking park goers and minimum wage workers what happened, and what they know testing if the response would be outlandish or down to earth I got different answers from both. The ones jumping from place to place always looking for there next big ride tended to do that with there stories. With the louder ones simple spreading watered down, more outlandish shit than the reporters

and the employees having a bit more down to earth answers, with some saying the park is hiding everything and the agency's making it impossible to find the truth. but finding an answer isn't to hard for me the ones behind me chose me because I've solved similar disappearances in the past, only now do I bother to keep a journal, that's why its my first entry. I was aloud special permission by ######### Land to go, "back stage" if you will. They ended up giving me a tour of how the do what they do

By the end of the tour I was free to roam where I pleased after they told me where everything is. While going about my day within the under city of the place. It was about closing hours When I decided to leave. Despite being under the park where every ghost catcher wished they could go, I tended to stay where the family had vanished. The Missing Link rollercoaster Seemed to have an abandoned fork that lead under ground that could only be seen in weird angles in the under city.

I didn't think much of it since it wasn't even part of the ride. Its sketchy demeanor didn't originally catch me as "shocking", but I ventured in anyway. Walking along the track I noticed that it appeared to loop perfectly, I speculated it to be part of the ride to seem that way and continued walking down the metal walkway inside the steel tubes it was in. I finally stopped when the ride ended abruptly, a concrete wall was write where the rest of the track would be, now this got me thinking.

When I left that night, back to my car, I asked several Passing employees if they ever knows about the concrete wall. They all gave me the same stupid answer, "We're not aloud to walk back there, but dude that just sounds bazar." I planned to ask the higher up the next day about my discovery. The next day I asked asked for the Manager of that side of the park. He told me he didn't even have a clue of what I was saying and recommended asking other higher ups. None of them understood a damn thing.

Finally one of them gave me the number of the engineer who built it, I went back to my car and called. I lured him in easy, asking basic questions like when did he build it, what the original sketches were and such. Finally I asked him about the wall, and the fork, and what the "missing link" between the two was. nothing about the wall stood out to him, he also said putting the coaster underground half the time was going to vibrate and shake the under city of ######## Land.

I would have been satisfied with my answers if it could at least hint at the family, I know their vanishing could be explained with facts and logic, but they weren't on my side, not this time. So I did what any sane person would do, go back to the dead end of the case. Maybe there was a door I missed back at the fork, the ride only lets one family at a time and its possible they got off at the wrong spot and wandered into the abandoned fork and got lost and likely all of them starved to death.

They have been missing for about a month as of now and are likely dead due to starvation. I didn't care then if I found them dead or alive, I just wanted them found, so I could explain away everything. It was then when I looked upwards in frustration and saw an old camera covered in cob webs. I jumped up with glee realizing that every ride here has at least two cams per coaster. This was it, how could they be so foolish, This could all be explained through facts and logic.

I rushed to an office that contained records of all the pictures taken that year. The Security staff behind the desk pulled up the camera of the working cam, witch is what I wanted. When I saw the pics it brought up ones with that family, I started scrolling, looking for more pic, since they were last seen boarding the ride. Its was then when everything changed. A pic in the Beginning, No pic in the middle, and last pic they are not there. Thee last one made since, they're not there.

It's the middle one that did it, where did that picture go? I searched through almost all the other family pics for that ride. Everyone is there in the beginning everyone in the middle, and everyone at the end. How is it, for this one family, they're gone by the third pic and the middle, the only leverage for the third, is entirely gone. once I got tired after my ten minutes of nothing. I saw a tiny notification on the bottom [pic 8,645] I clicked it before it too, vanished.

The next thing I saw were five grey and blue corpses, buckled up, Completely still. As I searched through more pics in this mystery file I saw the other picks of them slowly dying, there whole body slowly with each picture became more and more frail. Their eye however, were completely attentive. That's why it felt like it looped before, and I walked right in there twice. I started looking through other files inside this one and saw other families trapped inside attractions.

Only two others, one inside another coaster, and the other "The House of Many Mirrors". "Could these be the shadowed ones!?!" I thought, then that idea made me think back to my days as a kid. Once Joe woke from his head nearly cracking he said he had a vision of working at the mines, and during his time asleep his dream time matched with real time. He remembered running through the mines they twisted together in mind bending ways . a loop went on for more than four turns, then spit him back out.

But in an entirely new place. He had a full life inside his nightmare, ''All I wanted was to see my wife and kids again." he said and the real world was but a dream to him, a vanishing vision. The vision vanished from his mind but we still remembered it. Or at least I do, can't speak for the others. The last thing he said was how when there was a cave in and a rock nocked him out, that's when he woke up with us at his bed side. That's when I really started thinking.

Because, people really don't ever vanish at ######### Land, only ever found, (aka: \*the shadowed\*) so if way more ghosts are seen here, than started here, could that mean there really was a disaster back in the caves. what aloud us to roam the cave without loosing reality as we knew it. My only speculation to it is, "We were kids." we weren't that close to realism to begin with. that could possible be the case, but all hell I sure ain't gonna figure that out to be true any time soon.

Plus, if all of that is the case were we really chased out by our imagination or were Shadowed Miners purposely scaring us away from impending doom. If so I sure as hell hope they know I'm thankful. My one last question before this entry is done, is what makes the ground in this town do what it does. "Not every reasonable question has or needs a reasonable answer." To think I could explain everything with facts and Logic. How could I be so foolish, How could "You" explain through facts and logic

"Not every reasonable question has or needs a reasonable answer." -Mr. Grinner