Caelus Files

The **Caelus Files** is a real world website set up and hosted by Bandai Namco Entertainment to promote *The Dark Pictures Anthology*'s third installment, *House of Ashes*.

The site is presented as a top-secret archive of documents, pictures and videos about the investigation of the mysteries on the Zagros Mountains and the creatures, with information is a supposed leak from an unknown whistleblower.

## Folders

### Local Reports

The "Local Reports" folder contains information related to livestock killings and farmer disappearances.

#### *1960 A*

Evidence No. 3
24th March 1990
(Dead livestock on farm)
Photograph by local police

#### *Dead Live Stock*

Case file 2929041
Image #20

#### *Livestock Report 230961*

POLICE DEPARTMENT OF IRAQ
23rd September 1961
INCIDENT:
Local farmers have reported livestock being slaughtered in the dead of night. [CENSORED] Initial theories suggested packs of wild dogs had entered the region. Farmers then banded together during the night, armed with scythes and farming tools, intent on killing the offending animals. One farmer even dug a pit to trap the dogs. But no [CENSORED] were found, trapped, or killed. When out hunting, the farmers reported hearing rapid clicking sounds resounding across their farmlands as if scouting the land for prey. These noises intensified over the course of the night, with one farmer reporting a sound like the squeak of wire being stretched. The farmers alleged someone, or something, was closing in on them. After this, they stopped the hunt and returned to their homes. The following morning they all reported more of their livestock being slaughtered.

ACTIONS REQUIERED:
Further investigation of farmland
Gather witness statements

#### *Missing Person Report 34*

IRAQ POLICE DEPARTMENT
MISSING PERSON REPORT
FEBRUARY 8TH

SUBJECT, [CENSORED], LEFT THE FAMILY HOME AFTER HEARING AS WHAT HE DESCRIBED
ANIMALISTIC CLICKING SOUNDS IN THE FARM. HIS WIFE REPORTS THAT HE LEFT AROUND 11:30PM TO
INVESTIGATE WHETHER THERE WAS AN ANIMAL CAUSING THE DISTURBANCE OR [CENSORED].
SHE SAYS HE TOOK HIS SHOTGUN WITH HIM. AFTER A FEW HOURS SHE TRIED TO LOOK
FOR HIM BUT FOUND NOTHING.

[CENSORED] (THE WIFE) REPORTED THERE WAS NO MOON IN THE SKY AND AGAIN SHE HEARD CLICKING SOUNDS, LIKE A BAT, BUT IT WAS LIKE NOTHING SHE HAD HEARD BEFORE.

09-02-72

#### *Missing Farmers Report A997*

Between February 4th and March 3rd, four farmers, and many more farm hands, have disappeared from the area [see document 234KL1]. Their families reported each man went out at night to check [CENSORED] before going missing. None of the victims has a history of nomadic wandering, and their families described them as being generally happy with their lot.

While no bodies have been found and no crime scene uncovered, locals suggest the responsible party may be a [CENSORED]. Families now fear leaving their houses at nighttime with rumors suggesting the killer is a [CENSORED] in league with the ancient demon, [CENSORED].

#### *Medical Note 11*

Patient [CENSORED] screams through the night and requires restraining when the lights go out. The patient also experiences severe hallucinations regarding “demons”.

He claims demons come at night, attacking his farmland and will not stop until famine destroys the entire region. [CENSORED] suggests his behavior may be a form of delayed trauma relating to his son’s disappearance last spring.

- He requires sedatives and 24hr watch

#### *TEXT 9*

October 1887
Officials executed five men today. Each man had been found guilty of murder after the discovery of human remains in a mountainside cave. The stripped bones were discovered on a stone shrine surrounded by human organs rotting in rusting bowls of congealed blood.

A woman was also found. Alive, but tied up in a cage. Dehydrated to the point of hallucination, she could notremember her name. Yet, she recalled the men’s chants invoking the [CENSORED], as they lay their victims on a rough stone alter. She heard screams and flesh being ripped from limbs as she dropped in and out of consciousness. Some locals consider the murderers to be using [CENSORED]'s legend as cover for their evil behavior. But with all five men screaming [CENSORED] name as they fell to their deaths, the populace remains convinced of the incident’s demonic quality.

1960 ADead Live StockImage 3fLivestock Report 230961Medical Note 11Missing Farmers Report A997Missing Person Report 34Photo CTEXT 9Secruity camera-2Shadow moves-2

### Missing Tourists

The "Missing Tourists" contains 4 folders with information related to a missing group of tourists.

**Missing Person Reports**

##### *Missing Tourists 61*

FEBRUARY 20th 1961
A group of international tourists have gone missing between Erbil and Mount Halgurd. The group of four were last seen smoking hookah and drinking coffee in villages on the mountain trail. Those who spoke to the tourists said they asked questions about the [CENSORED]. Police have found the tourists’ clothes and jewelery in the mountains, but the tourists themselves remain missing. No human remains have been discovered, but a battered camera was found. Police sent its film to the next town for processing, where the developer struggled to produce clear photographs because of a coating of congealed blood covering the film. The developed photographs show the tourists smiling like holidaymakers at points of interest along the mountain trail. Towards the end of the reel, darker shots appear showing what looks some kind of [CENSORED] advancing towards the lens, and baring down on the photographer. And while the images are blurry and stained, some report seeing [CENSORED], [CENSORED] and [CENSORED] intent on eviscerating the stumbling photographer.

##### *Police Report F9001 Demons*

29th November 1932
It was reported that [CENSORED] entered the police station demanding the senior officer install “a great number of officers” in his village. The officer running the desk that night, [CENSORED] noted in his record that [CENSORED] claimed his village was under attack from, “the great and ancient demon [CENSORED], who he claims, has called forth a swarm of locusts in such numbers that his family’s pomegranate crop has been obliterated.
[CENSORED] also claimed multiple women from his village are now bedridden and possessed by [CENSORED]. He spoke about how the villagers now suffer following the village well drying up. The demon will not stop until famine destroys our land and people,” [CENSORED] said, before describing to Officer [CENSORED] how fellow farmers and workers have left out offerings of produce and livestock for the demon, but all still remain fearful of attacks on their farms. As such, local forces will patrol the area at sundown for the next seven days.

##### *Police Report 78*

Farmer [CENSORED] reports that after dinner he heard strange noises on his farmland. When checking on his animals, he noted his herd of goats galloping towards a mound where one of his animals was crying. The farmer described how he then heard a [CENSORED ] merging with a coarse clicking sound. When pressed on the question of who, or what, he considered was making the noise, he replied that he shone a torch towards the sound, illuminating a dark figure who was tearing through the herd, [CENSORED]. He describes [CENSORED] as twice the size of an ordinary man, with the outstretched [CENSORED] on his back, a [CENSORED] tail and a [CENSORED] head.

Missing Tourists 61Police Report F9001 DemonsPolice Report 78
**Found possessions**

##### *Tourist Item 4A*

Image no. 10
Casefile: 12A
Item:Necklace (Inspector: [CENSORED])

Tourist Item 4ATourist Item 4DTourist Item 7C
**Camera Roll**

##### *Tourist Photo H7*

Unidentified figure in photograph
Last image of tourist’s camera

FarmTourist Photo E3Tourist Photo FTourist Photo H7
**Video Footage**

STRANGE CLICKS HEARD-2WHAT IS THIS SOUND-2

### Markings

The "Markings" folder contains information related to a mysterious symbol.

#### *Strange Markings 784 TRANSLATED*

Original Doc. No. : 10827L3
Translated by:[CENSORED]
Authorised by:[CENSORED]
Date: 16/03/1964
June 1st 1840
Tattoo Symbol on Prisoners
The [CENSORED] prisoners have the same symbol carved into their chests, a single line drawn from the clavicle to naval, intersected with two crosses - a larger one at the naval and a slightly shorter one above. The physician [CENSORED] notes the scars are an unusual depth and posits they are the claw marks of some creature. The uniformity of the marks perhaps discredits this theory, and while [CENSORED] accepts the possibility that either knives or farm implements may have been used, he remains convinced something inhuman created the marks.
The same symbols are craved into the walls of the cave where the [CENSORED] tortured victims and sacrificed passing tourists to their [CENSORED], [CENSORED]. The calligraphy is as crude as the symbols carved into the prisoners chests. It looks as if some beast has clawed into the stone.
[Signature CENSORED]

#### *Sound Reports*

REPORT FORM
Wed. 9th June 1970
[CENSORED]
[CENSORED]
[CENSORED]
Address: [CENSORED]
Caller: [CENSORED]
Reason: Farmers Attacked.
Incident:
[CENSORED] reported that he has admitted [CENSORED] across multiple local farms to the hospital. Each suffers with the same delusions of witnessing [CENSORED] and all claim to have heard indecipherable incantations and clicking noises. One attests to barren patches sprouting up on their farmlands, and each describes being tracked by [CENSORED] at dark. Descriptions of [CENSORED] vary across all the patients interviewed, however, all describe having seen something forged from animal and human body parts. One farmer, [CENSORED] alleges having watched his flock of lambs gorged by a man with [CENSORED]
Actions Required:
An investigation has begun into the attacks and destruction of property, although no solid clues have been discovered.
CASE ACTIVE
[Signatures CENSORED]

Strange Markings 784Strange Markings 784 TRANSLATEDSound ReportsSymbol 6Symbol 9Tent Symbol

### Dig Site

The "Dig Site" folder contains 4 folders with information related to the disappearance of people in the Zagros mountains.

**Reports**

##### *Missing in Mountains*

Police Department of Iraq
[CENSORED]
Baghdad, Iraq
January 1st 1926
Missing Soldiers in Zagros Mountains
The search for Commander [CENSORED] and his soldiers has officially shut down. One month after they first disappeared, the soldiers on the training expedition remain AWOL. A search party discovered the soldier's base camp where [CENSORED]'s tent stood resolve, but no soldiers were found. The tent contained [CENSORED] rifle, and notebook in which he wrote, "the young soldiers seem to be suffering from some mass anxiety as darkness falls. They won't stop entering my tent and complaining of some ungodly creature circling the camp." He later records hearing, "clicks like a cloud of the worst kind of bats." Finally, his last notebook entry states, "The conscript [CENSORED] has disappered and, despite the late hour and the slimmest sickle of moonlight, the men are going out en masse to find him, dead or alive."
[Signature CENSORED]

##### *Missing Report 04071947*

Iraqi Police Service
Baghdad, Iraq
The Disappearance of the Archaeological Team
4th February 1947
The missing archaeological team has brought unwanted attention to our region. [CENSORED] agents struggle to uncover any crime scene, local elders believe they can explain the group's disappearance. Indeed, the region's farmers are becoming used to the livestock disappearing at night. Reports of [CENSORED] in the night are not uncommon, and the discovery of [CENSORED] and unspooled intestines the following morning is fequent.
Locals have long reported [CENSORED] being discovered in the mountain's caves, yet there appears to be no evidence to explain this archaeological dig team's disappearance.
In the course of this investigation, interviewees claim that Pazuzu is responsible. [CENSORED] and destroys crops; yet many believe sacrifices can stop the onset of famine and pestilence, with locals reportedly offering their [CENSORED]. One senior resident suggested [CENSORED], camped up in the mountains, will trap wandering travelers as offerings to the [CENSORED]
[Signature CENSORED]
Investigator

Missing in MountainsMissing Report 04071947
**Possessions**

##### *Found Item 9*

No. 10
8313Q
Soldiers 1926
Mountains

Found Bag 12Found Item 1Found Item 9
**Location**

##### *Photo Site Dig 276*

Image no. 2
Archaeological site left deserted
Everything was left behind
No bodies were found

##### *Tent*

No. 11
Camp discovered but no bodies found
Personal items left behind
Zagros Mountain

##### *Shadow Figure on Stairs*

Faint figure seen on top of stairway

Mountains of the LostPhoto Site Dig 276Photo A13South SideTentCreature SpinesShadow Figure on StairsSomething DarkTemple
**Video Footage**

Film 7C Glimpse-2Video 89F3 Knocked-2Video 997-2

### AUTOPSY

The "AUTOPSY" folder contains 2 folders with photos taken during an autopsy of an unknown creature.

**AUTOPSY IMAGES**

##### *Autopsy Unknown A9336*

Autopsy Report Aegis
Decedent: Unidentified Life Form Autopsy
Age: Unknown
Home Address: Found in Zagros Mountains
Notification by: Military
Marks and Wounds: The life form is 8 feet tall, bipedal wings with the wing webbing connected to arms. The epidermis is covered in excretion and it appears diseased. The creature also is formed of an unidentified tissue and appears to be decomposing. The ribs are joined together at the sternum and are fused together.
It also has two prominent incisors which appear discolored and malformed.
Probable Cause of Death: Unknown
Date: [CENSORED]
Place of Investigation: [CENSORED]
Signature of Medical Examiner: [Signature CENSORED]]
Password : 21200429

Unknown Autopsy 7Unknown Autopsy 14Unknown Autopsy 45Unknown Autospy 63AUTOPSY UNKNOWN A9336
**RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES**

The "Reconstructed Images" folder contains concept art of underground creatures. This is the only folder that is protected, with the password is 21200429.

Image 10AImage 28AItem 290BE

## Notes

### *Note 1*

08/25/2003: confidential information has leaked about the top-level operation in the Sumerian desert. Today, I'm organizing my files on the case and everything I've managed to learn thus far.

### *Note 2*

I need to watch my back and the best way to protect oneself is in plain sight. Share #HouseOfAshes to spread the word. 800/800 shares achieved.

### *Note 3*

They can track my movements and follow my trace online. I need to vanish amongst the data. 5000 / 5000 clicks on this page are needed for me to safely upload more information.

### *Note 4*

I think they spotted me. Somebody tampered with my algorithm and I can’t say for certain how many people visited the page, I’m not sure I’m safe. I’m uploading this footage to make sure they take me seriously. But I now need at least 15000 / 15000 clicks on this page to hide in the crowd. I'll have to monitor closely to avoid being hacked...

## Internet Browser

A page in a fictional browser that promotes *House of Ashes*.

## Videos

SUBJECT 1 COLLAPSESUBJECT 1 COLLAPSE.mp4SUBJECT 3 FRACTUREDSUBJECT 3 FRACTURED.mp4SUBJECT 5 SWARMSUBJECT 5 SWARM.mp4The Dark Pictures Anthology- House of Ashes - Character Introduction TrailerFINAL FILE.mpg

## Trivia

* The Caelus Files is the first special promotion created for *The Dark Pictures Anthology*.
* Some video footage and autopsy images are taken from the game.
* Even though the password for "Reconstructed Images" is located in AUTOPSY UNKNOWN A9336's transcript, it is nowhere to be found in the document itself.