STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Xavier Price — Male, Age 32

LAST SEEN: Davis–Monthan Air Base, Hangar 18 / 02:17 A.M. / Flight Log Entry (Final)

DISPOSITION: Unauthorized Engine Test / Run-Up Activation / Personnel Disappearance

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: FOXTROT-E

The wrench was still warm.

The logbook still open.

The name still signed.

They said he mixed the manifests.

Said fatigue made him wander.

Said the log was forged.

But hangars don’t heat themselves.

And ghosts don’t torque bolts.

The chalk lines marked where a decommissioned aircraft once lived.

Then, before dawn, new rubber scuffs appeared over the dust.

No aircraft assigned.

No flight scheduled.

No man accounted for.

The final notation read—

ENGINE TEST — COMPLETE.

RUN-UP RECORDED. AIRCREW CLEARED.

By morning… Hangar 18 was sealed.

Base command called it maintenance.

No one asked why the floor still smelled like heat.

Ena’s reopened the case.

The base kept the plane.

The plane kept the man.

You shouldn’t have walked the line.

✈️ Listen after midnight.

🗂 Companion file: beacons.ai/twistednighttales

STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Yasmine Trask — Age 29

LAST SEEN: Anchorage Telephone Exchange / Night Shift / 1971

DISPOSITION: Unexplained Audio Persistence / Phantom Transmission / Operator Absence

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: OMEGA-T

She worked the lines that carried other people’s voices.

Then one of them learned hers.

The call started with her name.

It ended before she could hang up.

The board never powered down.

The line stayed warm.

And the copper kept breathing.

No one heard her leave.

But the headset never cooled.

Ena’s reopened the file.

You shouldn’t have answered.

☎️ Listen after midnight.

📂 Companion file: beacons.ai/twistednighttales

STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Zoelle Kincaid — Mail Clerk, Age 31

LAST SEEN: 8th Floor Annex, 11:13 A.M. / Interoffice Chute Vestibule

DISPOSITION: Unresolved Disappearance / Mechanical Malfunction / Containment Breach

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: OMEGA-H

STATE: Alabama • CITY: Birmingham • ERA: 1978

The Annex kept records.

Then the records kept her.

A brass mouth on the wall.

Canvas pouches fed like clockwork.

One jammed — then cleared.

Only the pouch came out.

The clerk didn’t.

By the time anyone looked,

her cart was still rolling.

The ledger still drying.

Her paperclip still on the floor.

They called it a missed route.

A forgotten break.

But buildings don’t forget.

Ena’s reopened the file.

You shouldn’t have leaned in.

📎 Listen before closing time.

📂 Companion file: beacons.ai/twistednighttales

STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Blood Bank Anomaly — File CC-149

LAST SEEN: February 14, 2025 — 11:42

DISPOSITION: Barcode Malfunction / Patient Discrepancy / Donor Loss

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: MERCER-RED

The blood bank logged every name.

Then the names logged themselves.

A donor signed in.

A scarf stayed behind.

But the scanner printed a record marked deceased.

DOB: June twelfth, nineteen seventy-five.

DOD: March nineteenth, twenty twenty-one.

Officially: clerical error.

Unofficially: the system replaced her.

No alarms. No witnesses.

Only the hum of cold storage holding bags too warm.

Ena’s reopened the file.

You shouldn’t have offered your arm.

🕯 Listen with the lights off.

📂 Companion file: beacons.ai/twistednighttales

STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Inventory Room Disappearance — File H-10-B9

LAST SEEN: November 21, 2025 — 21:13

DISPOSITION: Evidence Misclassification / Chain-of-Custody Irregularity / Personnel Loss

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: OMEGA-H

The warehouse kept records.

Then the records kept them.

Boxes appeared where none had been.

Labels printed names before they were missing.

Personal effects sealed before the bodies were gone.

Three aisles.

Three workers.

One supervisor who signed without ink.

Officially: power dip.

Unofficially: the shelves bent time.

No alarms. No screams.

Only the sound of cardboard learning new words.

Ena’s reopened the file.

You shouldn’t have clocked in.

🕯 Listen with the lights off.

📂 Companion file: beacons.ai/twistednighttales

STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Ortega, Luis — Male, 48 / Velez, Sandra — Female, 35 / Kwan, Henry — Male, 27

LAST SEEN: City Aqueduct System, Section Delta-9 / March 23, 23:04 hrs / Engineering Log (restricted)

DISPOSITION: Inspection Dispatch / Pressure Anomaly / Audio Interference / Personnel Missing

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: ECHO-R

The engineers signed in.

They never signed out.

The water shifted without waves.

Gauges froze, trembling like they wanted to scream.

Then the names began.

“…Velez. Sandra. Status: unreturned…”

“…Ortega. Luis. Await retrieval…”

“…Kwan. Henry. Entered. Not returned…”

The report blames comms failure.

But comms don’t bleed names into condensation.

What no one expected—

was the roll call still going after the voices were gone.

Ena’s reopened the case.

You shouldn’t have stepped inside.

🌊 Listen after midnight.

📁 Companion file: beacons.ai/twistednighttales

THE LOST PLATFORM

STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Sublevel D — Sealed Transit Platform

LAST SEEN: City Metro Records / Access breach at 23:04 / Crew Bodycam Footage (restricted)

DISPOSITION: Unauthorized Entry / Passenger Manifest Anomaly / Platform Occupancy Unexplained

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: ECHO-D

The station was sealed for flooding.

But the walls were dry.

And the platform was full.

Four men went down.

None of them came back up.

Only the tape returned.

It showed commuters waiting for a train.

A train that hasn’t run in fifty years.

What no one expected—

was the vending glass catching a face.

A face that shouldn’t be there.

Ena’s reopened the case.

You shouldn’t go below.

🚇 Listen after midnight.

📎 Companion file: beacons.ai/twistednighttales

STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: John Miller — Duplicate Caller ID

LAST SEEN: U.S. Route 60, Mile Marker 313 — March 13, 1945 / March 12, 2025

DISPOSITION: 911 Line Cross / Patrol Dash-Cam Distortion / Temporal Overlap

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: ECHO-X

She logged the call as routine.

One rollover. One victim.

Help on the way.

Then the second line lit.

Same number.

Same crash.

Eighty years apart.

The patrol swore the road was empty.

But the dash cam showed headlights.

And the clock showed two different centuries.

Every night since… at 01:07…

the call repeats.

Same voice. Same plea.

Same name.

Ena’s reopened the file.

You shouldn’t drive past Salt Flats after dark.

🚨 Listen after midnight.

📎 Companion file: beacons.ai/twistednighttales