COA-003

COA Number: 003

COA Reference Name: The Future Is Now

Anomaly Classification: Harmful

Containment Procedures: COA-003 downloads have been removed, and the site has also been removed. Access to the site requires Level-6 Class-M confirmation and is to be used by a human Class-T. The Class-T must own the device and have a remote-controlled camera permanently attached to them. This is to be activated when they go missing. The Class-T must download 003 onto the device, and only be given access to the device with the employee that gave the Class-T the device, and must be monitored by a Level-5 and a Level-5 Class-D and can only use the download. If any of the articles on 003 may expose sensitive information or may cause harm, a Level-5 Class-C team must be dispatched to prevent anything from happening, to document what happens and contain any witnesses or COA-003-1s(App Story Staff).

Description: COA-003 is an online news website where people can also post stories. On the website is a download link that will download COA-003 onto your device. The download gives you notifications when someone with the app posts a story. However, no one can find the option to post these stories for the app, but they can on the website. The website is not considered a COA, but carries one so therefore is contained. All posts on the website are normal, but the app stories aren't. The news are normal on the app.

The stories on the app are apparently written by the 'App Story Staff' and contain disturbing content. All stories posted on the are individual for users though is supposed to be for everyone, but always follow this basic order of events:

1: The user is met with an add that always advertises something purchasable the person who downloaded the app likes. Even if the user has no history at all, it always intrigues them. The items can be bought online. No known affect happens when it is purchased. The item never arrives, and no money is actually lost.

2: An actual photo of the user will be posted in a story about something to do with cats and dogs food, and the face of the user is poorly photo-shopped into an empty bowl. If the user has no photos ever taken, the photo will have their face on a white background. This unknown photo will always show the user as a child.

3: An unknown photo of the user looking scared will be poorly photo shopped in with a scared looking stranger sitting in a dark room together. A day after the post is sent, a mysterious humanoid appears in the background. The person sitting next to the user is never the same, and is always an actual person that went missing mysteriously. In more recent tests, there have been no second person. It is assumed that the person sitting next to the user are involved in the fifth posts. No text is on the post and there is no name, but the next day it is titled 'Peek-a-boo'.

4: Is posted a day after the third post is updated, as soon as the user goes missing. All supervising employees report hearing a person screaming and feeling an uncontrollable urge to look away from the user. The user always goes missing when the supervising personnel look back. The devices are also gone. Cameras put on Class-Ts have shown footage of the Class-T reading the post. The post shows an image of them with the mysterious third-person from post 3 kidnapping the user. It talks about the user going missing mysteriously, but is labelled 'Gotcha'.

5: It says that a new person has joined the 'App Story Staff' and shows the kidnapped user with extended limbs, a mouth sown shut a tears burnt into the sides of their face. Though it s assumed the new app story staff is the user, footage of Class-Ts show that they are in a normal state.

6: The device of the user, now covered in blood, re-appears where it was before the user was kidnapped, with the screen on and showing a new post. The post shows secret information being leaked to someone. When Class-Ds go to the person that is supposed to gain information, a reply to the story is sent by a user named 'Now', and it says 'Hello.' No information is leaked if the Class-Ds arrive at the person who is supposed to learn information within 12-14 hours of the post being released.

7: A post saying that the new 'App Story Staff' mentioned on post 5 was identified as the missing person from post 4. It also talks about them needing to be fired because of a mass murdering and hostage situation. It turns out that the hostage is the second person from post 3. When Class-D move to intercept, if there was no second person from post 3, then the mass murderer is contained, but if there was a second person, the mass murderer escapes with the hostage.