r/NoSleep version of Part 1
For those who don’t remember, Mike posted this a few days ago. On behalf of him, I would like to continue what he started.
Last Saturday, he asked me for help regarding the disappearance of his cousin Dennis. I didn’t take him seriously at first; it was apparent that his cousin was one of those rebellious teenagers who would come back home when they realize that living alone is tough. But when he and his cousin’s best friend Nate told me the details, I opened up to the idea that his cousin didn’t run away after all.
The three of us have been investigating for the whole weekend, and it was worth it; we’ve uncovered something that has been going on for months. To be more specific, people started “running away” from their homes eight Wednesdays ago. Driving around the Metro and asking around homes after homes have been totally draining. Nonetheless, our efforts paid off. Because of what we’ve found out, all of this has become a police matter as of yesterday.
Everything is well—that is, until Mike has disappeared.
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We learned from Nate that Dennis never liked Andrea. In fact, Dennis’ friends had dismissed his messages to her as insensitive pranks. We headed to Andrea’s home straight away, thinking that another person who was related to her would be the next to “run away.” Mike felt guilty about being unable to talk some sense into her when it mattered, unhappy that he didn’t know where she lived and where she and Dennis were supposed to meet. I was tempted to tell him that he should’ve been calmer, but correcting him now simply wouldn’t accomplish anything.
According to Andrea’s mother, her daughter had blocked the accounts of everyone who was concerned about her running away. She also demanded them what Dennis demanded Mike: that they should delete posts that made people think she was missing. We convinced her to tell them to repost. Echoing Mike, I thought that it, too, couldn’t be a coincidence. Because of the pattern, we asked if there was anyone who was on the process of courting her daughter or somebody she had rejected. She gave us a bunch of names, but further investigation made us conclude that the pattern didn’t necessarily involve the receiver romantically liking the sender; that was the only part of the whole thing that were truly coincidences.
But more on that later.
Following Mike’s steps, we went to Samara’s home and asked her parents where this “Ernest” lived. Incidentally, we learned that Samara had texted her mother six days ago. Mike almost went furious, asking them why they didn’t tell him about it—apparently, he went there the day Samara had texted her parents. Mike made a scene, only calming down when we learned that the first message was sent at 11:15 PM (he was already home at the time). Moreover, it seemed that Samara had been texting occasionally, and we felt relieved for her parents when they showed us their exchanges. Maybe she really just ran away after all.
That was until our investigation began to make progress and we realized that the text messages were VERY important clues.
We started to wonder if the “pig question” was relevant, but it was when we talked to Ernest’s brother that our doubts went away. But first, it was notable that E.B. wasn’t worried about his brother in the slightest. We learned why: Ernest had been texting him—although, at the time, we were still focused on the “pig question” that we didn’t bother to check out the text messages.
Ernest's conversation with Andrea, courtesy of Ernest's screenshots sent to his brother.
2nd.
For the sake of conciseness, I’d rather not to go into details regarding our trip to Natalie’s. Essentially, we learned the same things from her parents as we did from Ernest’s brother. Although, it was remarkable that, according to Natalie’s father, what she felt for Ernest was the complete opposite of romance. Unfortunately, from Natalie to Wynonna, we had no way of finding out whether the ones who ran away before them asked them the “pig question.” That said, we confirmed that the pattern was consistent: the runaways asked out people who liked them but they never liked back.
Until we talked to Dave’s friend.
Dave was Natalie’s gay friend, and his circumstances that were highly irregular with the pattern were undoubtedly the main reason why we broadened our observations. First, Natalie didn’t like him romantically. Second, he didn’t run away from his family; it was his gay friend who was receiving his texts. Third, and perhaps the most enlightening factor: the text messages themselves.
Dave’s text 1
Dave’s text 2
Dave’s text 3
We noticed that whenever Dave typed his name, it was always wrongly capitalized (DAve). It was at this moment that we asked other families to send us their conversations with their children.
My heart jumped out of my chest when we learned that the texts contained the exact same sentences. Up to now, we have strong reason to believe that the messages are automated, but the police told us that they were having a difficult time tracing the number used.
Dave’s friend led us to Edwin’s family, and Edwin’s family led us to the family of the girl he liked: Wynonna.
The question of why and how she disappeared might as well be unanswerable; she was the first to “run away.” No one asked to meet her on a Wednesday, and the one whom she liked was safe and sound. Her family had been doing their own investigation, but in their case, the trail went cold after Edwin’s family. The reason being was that Edwin and Dave were having a sexual relationship in which the latter paid the former for his “services.” Edwin did an excellent job of keeping it a secret from everyone who knew him.
An unfavorable circumstance. We couldn’t help but think that this mystery would have been solved long ago if that wasn’t the case, but there was nothing everybody could do about it. What’s important was, all of this had now been recognized as an extremely pressing matter.
I just hoped that we’re not too late.
Out of the families of everyone who ran away, it was only Wynonna’s who was contemplating whether to involve the police or not, and it was because their daughter had never texted back since she had almost a month ago. We regretted to inform them that her texts might be automated.
Wynonna’s text 1
Wynonna's text 2
Wynonna's text 3
Wynonna's text 4
Comparing it to Dave’s message, you would notice the eerie similarities; the time and the date gaps between the texts were the same. It was the case for everyone else who ran away as well. Their families received the first message eleven days after their children disappeared, then it was two days later when they received another one. Then four. Then six. After they sent the last message stating that they would do something that they had been wanting to do and promising to come home, the runaways never texted since. Incidentally, Natalie’s family just received the last message two days ago. Computing the gaps between the messages, it was imminent that Dennis’ would text someone today (Monday) at exactly 11:15 PM (eleven days after he ran away).
It was not a good sign.
We coordinated with the families of the missing people (at this point, we pretty much agreed upon that they were, indeed, missing). After hours of explaining what we’d discovered to the authorities, they’d finally decided to conduct an official investigation.
Nate notified every single one of Andrea’s Facebook friends when there wasn’t anyone on the list that Andrea’s mother made who received the “pig question.” Luckily, an “Ivan” contacted him hours later. We explained everything we found out, and he was very grateful because he was actually planning on meeting her. However, Mike wasn’t completely happy about it, saying that Andrea’s disappearance could have been prevented too.
On a related note, it was at this point that we scrapped the notion that everyone who went missing was romantically involved with each other one way or another. Ivan didn’t have the hots for Andrea, but he admitted that he thought Andrea liked her so he gave her his attention. Basically, he thought that he was going to “get some.” I remember Mike and Nate getting mad at him, but that’s beside the point.
By the way, this was how Andrea and Ivan’s conversation went.
2nd
Instead of starting off with the “pig question,” Andrea demanded that she called him “Yvan.” Identical to Ernest’s case, she didn’t let go of the topic, spamming shortened versions of her original message until Ivan approved. The similarity was highly disturbing.
It was a new development. Was changing the first letter of Ivan’s name a clue, or was it some trick to confuse us further?
It was Mike’s task to check up on Dennis’ mother since they live practically beside each other. Nate and I had been waiting all night for his update, but we were utterly alarmed when it was almost midnight and we didn’t get any response.
Nate and I rushed to Mike’s. Negative thoughts plagued my mind the entire time I was on the way. You could only imagine my relief when I found his mother and little sister… safe. Mike’s room was locked from the inside. When we successfully forced the door open, he was nowhere to be seen. Had you been there with us, you would think that he’s just hiding in the room somewhere, but our search proved fruitless. We could do nothing but notify the police, especially after we saw what was on Mike’s computer screen.
Andrea’s message to Mike.
We had no doubt that whoever (or whatever) was responsible for taking away Dennis and the others was the one who used Andrea’s account to send Mike this bizarre doodle; we didn’t even have to call it a gut feeling.
I couldn’t help but feel that we were being fucking taunted.
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Furthermore, we’re right: Dennis did text his mother at exactly 11:15 PM. For good measure, we told his mother to send him a false tragic news and see how he would respond.
I’m writing this on October 8, 2018, at 3:00 AM, hours after we went into Mike’s room. He didn’t tell us that he was going somewhere, and even so, him stepping out of his room made no sense. The door was bolted from the inside. He might have jumped out of the window, but there was no way that he could close and lock it simultaneously from way below—also, it was locked from the inside as well. Furthermore, the room had no sign of struggle. He was in the middle of using his computer, stopping at some point after he opened his chat box with Andrea.
I know this sounds illogical, but it looked like he just… vanished.
I will update once I make sense out of the doodle that Andrea (I’m not even sure if it’s her anymore) sent Mike. I’m putting it here in hopes that people could help me figure it out.
The WEDNESDAY doodle.
“YOU DISTURBED MY WEEKLY ROUTINE. NOW HAVE TO TURN 180 AND GO BACK TO SQUARE ONE.”
Out of this confusing “art,” only this statement makes sense. After all, we prevented Ivan from being their next victim.
For now, I will save this draft. Please pray for my friend’s safety. I may be going overboard with this, but I really can’t shake the feeling that something bad will happen to him. We all can’t.
I’m scared.
UPDATE: October 9, 2018
Unsurprisingly, Dennis’ response was exactly the same as the others’ second message to their families.
Mike’s sister sent this photo to me. I know that I should find the fact that Dennis’ mother can’t to take a screenshot silly, but it’s difficult to feel amused when everything is just a mess. Nine people are missing, and my best friend is one of them. And now I’m even more scared for him, especially since he started to block the accounts of everyone who think that he’s missing, but not before reminding us that he’s not.
It’s like a replay of what happened to Dennis and the others.
Still no significant progress on the WEDNESDAY doodle. We’re still trying to figure out what the strange symbol above the letter “W” means.
UPDATE: October 10, 2018
I converted every roman numeral into numbers, and correlating it with the lines ( | - \ / ), I figured that it’d make a symbol or something. But actually, they were letters.
Demystifying WEDNESDAY 1.
I emphasized the ones who have a number enclosed in parentheses after them because I thought they were important. Thinking that they needed to be multiplied, it didn’t make sense when I did. After minutes of staring at it, I realized that they were orders. E (1) is the first E, and the E (2) is the second. It’s the same with the D’s.
Why did they need to be ordered? Nate told me what he figured out: the numbers lead to the letters of the word “Wednesday”.
Demystifying WEDNESDAY 2.
With that, we proceeded to analyze perhaps the most confusing part of the doodle: the bizarre drawings.
W – Tail
E (1) – Tongue?
D (1) – Hands/Feet?
N – Penis
E (2) – Pig
S – Hands/Feet
D (2) – Boobs/Eyes?
A – Hands/Feet?
Y – Nose
The drawings were so poorly made that they were confusing, but we’ve managed to make sense of it because of the pig drawing in E (2). In that case, “Y” becomes a pig’s nose, and we’re now certain that “W” is a tail.
My stomach sunk. It didn’t take long for us to figure out that it was related to the “pig question”, and the drawings were the missing people’s (with the exception of Ivan) answers.
Ivan – Nose
Andrea – Feet
Dennis – Eyes
Ernest – Everything (which explains the drawing of a complete pig)
It’s safe to assume that the people who went missing earlier have their answers drawn as well. Who would fucking do this? This is just sickening.
Why are there checks below the letters and a messy X mark under the letter Y? Ivan was supposed to be a victim too, so I think he’s the part of the weekly routine—that we’ve disturbed—being referred to. Andrea insisted on calling her “Yvan,” but for wh—
Oh, my god. I don’t believe this. I will not believe this. There’s no fucking way.
I’ve stopped hoping. I think they’re dead. All of them, including Mike.
Turn 180 and go back to square one.
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