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Tale of a Lost Soul

Investigator — John|269,000 souls subscribed

He investigates the stories people tell him — the deaths that make no sense, the houses that remember, the voices that should not be able to speak. He posts what he finds. He is still looking for her.

Field notes · the afterlife

Open

Does life after death exist? And where do we go?

Everything I have gathered in five years of digging: blurry photographs, corrupted audio, bodies that simply stopped living. None of it is proof. All of it keeps me awake.

— one day closer to the unknown.

Investigation · patterns

Unresolved

Two strangers, ten thousand miles, one identical life.

Can two people who have never met live the same life — same wives, same children, same names? Is it chance? A glitch? Or are we all made to live the same lives over and over, and only the context changes?

— I'll read your thoughts in the comments.

Case file · unresolved

Cold

The Taintings: a spiral that spreads across the walls.

A black smudge that appears in every photograph — different walls, different rooms, always moving, as if something were passing through the house and staining it dark. I have started calling them Taintings.

— have a lovely night.

Essay · the conservation of the self

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On the weight of the soul, and the energy that outlives us.

Energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed. If consciousness is a form of energy, then it must persist. The question no one answers: into what? And — who or what does the transforming?

— sleep well, if you can.

His descent is a book. The dark keeps the rest.

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