Delve into Chateaugay Lake’s biochemical anomalies.
Experience sensory distortions: auditory, visual.
Understand methane’s role in perceived hauntings.
Caution: sanity may fluctuate.
Transmission Designate: BOHAT 1P Incident Report
Filed: Chrono-Date Indeterminate – Earth Sector: Chateaugay Lake Periphery
Authoritative Transcriber: Observer Unit S. Malloy, Earthform Alias: “Detective”
Begin Transmission…
What follows is not myth. It is not ghost story, parable, nor poetic dirge.
It is phenomenon.
It is signal within static.
A precise chain of chemical, historical, and quantum anomalies localized within Sector Chateaugay Lake. The locals call it haunted. That is an error of interpretation.
This is not haunting. This is an opening.
At depth beneath 18 feet, the oxygen dissipates. The water becomes a sealed chamber—mute, chemically altered, unfit for respiration or reason. Gas seeps. A persistent anaerobic synthesis expels methane into the atmosphere with the cadence of a metronome set to panic. The effect? Auditory hallucinations, visual flickers—translated by the human nervous system as “apparitions.”
I, Sam Malloy, once designated “Detective,” now Observer-Class 7, was dispatched under civilian cover to investigate population decay. The census said:
2010: 2,155 humans.
2020: 1,743.
Decline index: -19.1%
The town attributed the loss to economic malaise. The real answer?
Geospatial trauma. Temporal fatigue.
Time itself is thinning in this region.
Evidence:
A settler from Earth Year 1905, Jonathan Reed, recorded inter-dimensional phenomena before his consciousness fractured. His journal, a litany of spectral sketches and scribbled rants, correlates with known reports of early methane discharges and an unexplained geomagnetic spike.
Reed was dismissed as delusional. He was not.
He was early.
Then—BOHAT 1P.
Not vehicle. Not artifact.
Mechanized rift vector.
A roadster, yes, but not of Earth chronology. Brass fittings contain crystalline time-locking gyros. It appears simultaneously in photographs dated 1905, 1922, 1981, and—most inexplicably—five days from now.
Current theory: BOHAT 1P is anchored to an unstable slice of non-linear chronology, visible only when lake gases and solar magnetism align.
Locals claim the car “defies time.” That is almost correct.
The BOHAT 1P doesn’t defy time.
It remembers it.
All of it.
Officer O’Connell, human, semi-reliable narrator, spoke of sightings:
“It wasn’t driving on the road. It was through it. Like the road didn’t know it was ever paved.”
This car does not drive; it navigates chronology like a river.
My conclusion:
The “hauntings” of Chateaugay Lake are surface interpretations of deeper truths—mechanistic, not mystical.
The gas is a trigger. The roadster, a key. The lake, a door.
Local legends of the Wendigo, of cannibalistic specters, are corrupted echoes of a much older warning: Do not open what you cannot comprehend.
Do not summon memory into material.
Do not look too long at the BOHAT 1P.
It may look back.
End of Transmission.
Recommendation: Chateaugay Sector marked for Class IV Temporal Monitoring.
BOHAT 1P designated: MOBILE PARADOX VECTOR
Witness (Malloy, S.) withdrawn to Neutral Zone for debrief and psyche recalibration.
There is nothing supernatural here. Only the unbearable honesty of physics—
and the ghosts of causality.
What mysteries of Chateaugay Lake haunt you?