CHAPTER 2 (EVIDENCE 1)

This case, ever since I took it, it became my obsession, a drug, it's addicting, it keeps me awake at night, from all that I have proven and answered, For 3 years, this one particular case becomes a theory for me, I have crave for the answer of a now a rumor.

This case became a dead end, the people that became missing, they are now myths, the department closed this case 2 months ago, poor people, poor mothers and fathers, their kids, they do not deserve that kind of suffering.

This case began as a normal disappearance of folks from White Oak, a small town at Saint Cruz, South Downs, it has beautiful river, clear as the blue sky during the day, and a mirror for the bright moon during the night, it also has a forest, filled with giant trees in green, a beautiful place, if only its horrors didn't exist.

People end up missing, we thought it was coincidence, there is nothing to link for their disappearance, until it hit us, the only similarity is that they are lost in the same place, same time, same day of the month for 3 years after that, it stopped.

26th of day of the month, 3:33 pm, the disappearance, people who saw the people disappear, claims they head into the forest, those who saw them go in the forest tries to warn them while they are heading in the forest, loud shout, and yet they can't hear the shouts, they are moving as if they are hypnotized, they don't respond.

From these claims of these witnesses, the victims, they seem as if someone is pulling them to the forest, like a bear who found a beehive, or a mouse who was lured by a cheese.

The big question is why these witnesses didn't try to stop them? I thought I will have a reasonable answer, one where it checks to the reality, all they give is a bed story tale, a fiction, a tale of how the forest itself claims it's victim by luring them to the forest, never to be seen again.

I don't believe in fairy tales, fairy tales are made for children, stories, just to put them to sleep, or just to get them avoid the dangers of ferocious animals wandering the forest. It's a dead end, even for me.

For 3 years, I've been investigating it, my mind is already telling me to give up the case, to stop, even my superior to just back off, and find more case that matters, yet at the back of my head it's telling me not to jump into conclusion just yet, these families of those victim, I can't abandon them, I'm their only hope, I think this was always what's driving me, the curiosity, the answers, seeing justice is given for those deserves it.

I have thought that just it, a make-believe, a blind hope just driving to keep me on going, then a little hope, a chance to set things right, for the first time in 2 months after the case was closed, it was opened again.

A body, dead, lifeless, found near at the river where it meets the forest, the dead woman turned out to be one of those gone missing 3 years ago, may her soul finds rest, for the first time, a glimmer of hope of solving this case arose at me.

My name is Detective Jacobs, for the past 3 years, this case has been my sole obsession, the mystery I have yet to solve.