CASE FILE #00X — CLASSIFIED
Some cases are never closed.
Connections. Patterns. Something doesn't add up.
Last seen: Dock 14, 11:47 PM
Investigators claim no foul play despite three witnesses reporting unusual activity near the scene hours before...
March 14, 1947“Follow the money. It always comes back to the harbor.”
— C.M.Retrieved from office safe
Dispatch confirms multiple units responding. All records of the call mysteriously vanished from the log book two days later.
March 15, 1947 — 02:33 AMKey found in victim's coat — doesn't match any known lock. Brass. Ornate. Old.
Read between the lines. The truth hides in plain sight.
The case arrived on my desk at 3 AM — a manila envelope, no return address, just the word “BOO” stamped in red ink. Inside: three photographs, a torn map of the harbor district, and a brass key that opens nothing we've tried. Someone wants us to look. The question is: at what?
The fire at Warehouse 14 wasn't accidental — that much is clear. The accelerant pattern suggests someone who knows their chemistry. But why burn a warehouse full of imported textiles? Unless the textiles weren't the point. Underneath the ash, we found traces of something else entirely.
“I saw a figure — tall, wearing a long coat — standing at the end of the pier. Just standing there. Watching. The streetlamp behind them made it impossible to see a face. Then the light went out, and they were gone.”
— Dockworker, name withheldThree incidents. Three locations. All within a six-block radius of the old harbor. Connect them on a map and you get a triangle — and at its center sits a building that officially doesn't exist. City records show an empty lot. Satellite imagery shows a structure. Someone erased it from the books.
I've been told to drop it. “Insufficient evidence,” they say. But since when does insufficient evidence come with a personal visit from someone who doesn't show ID? The case file is officially closed. Unofficially, I'm just getting started.
...or is it?
Every crime has a geography. Every ghost has a haunt.