Case ########-32

Case study on the administration of fear.

Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

Content warnings:

• Compulsions (supernatural)
• Emotional manipulation & gaslighting
• Mental disorientation
• Paranoia & self-doubt
• Mentions of: scopophobia, worms (inc. SFX), blackmail, gun violence, isolation, mild language, mass suffering, self-recrimination
• SFX: screams, discordant static

Transcript:

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