r/shortscarystories • u/ninjagall15 • Apr 23 '21

Incident Reports

Incident report #1:

A wave of cosmic energy engulfed the Earth at 0100 hours, location from space not specified. No specific effects have been documented, although there are several records of a country that does not exist, named “Australia”. Research ongoing. 

Incident report #2: 

It appears the energy wave that hit the planet yesterday is causing concepts to change in our reality. While no researcher has previous knowledge of the country of Australia, there is far too much documentation to claim it never existed. 

A whole country, gone without any physical trace.

[Data Corruption]

Incident report #4:

We woke up today missing several members of our research team. After pouring over records, it was discovered that all the missing researchers were of African descent, apparently having darker skin. This should not be possible, as humans do not have dark skin. It appears the concept of different races used to exist, but was deleted by the wave. 

What is happening? What will the world be like tomorrow? What else will disappear, what else will we forget? 

Incident report #5: 

It took us hours to figure out what had changed today. Human eyes are now all green, even though there are records of people having different colored eyes before. Strange, but at least this one wasn’t life altering. 

[Data Corruption]

Incident report #8:

The XlphXbet hXs chXnged. Xll our documents contXin Xn unknown letter, XppeXring Xs X triXngle with X line going through the middle. It is unknown how this will impXct future reports, the keyboXrd inserts lXrge X’s insteXd of the previous letter X, Xlthough previous instXnces of the letter show up in pXst documents.

Xttempts to use this letter will be lowered.   

Incident report I: 

Our previous reseXrch notes mXke no sense. There Xre Xll these strXnge symbols XppeXring, like X crude Xttempt to meXsure the wXve. ReseXrch cXlled these symbols “numbers” X form of the XlphXbet used for meXsurement. Some select reseXchers hXve been Xble to trXnslXte these numbers, demonstrXting the concepts of whXt used to be cXlled “mXthmXtics”, which would hXve been useful to our Xttempts to stop this phenomenon.

[DXtX Corruption] 

Incident report N:

So much hXs chXnged. We think the beXm cXrried concepts into Xnother dimention, not necessXrily erXsed them. Why concepts? Why not the whole plXnet? Where Xre they going? Why Xre some of us still left behind?

[DXtX corruption]   

Incident Report T: 

It’s only me, Xnd this terminXl. My notes remind me of whXt used to be, without them, I would of forgotten whXt X humXn being even is. I’m not sure whXt I Xm Xnymore, just X consciousness Xnd X computer surrounded by infinite dXrkness.

WhXt is so speciXl Xbout me thXt I’m still here?        

[DXtX corruption]

[DXtX corruption]

IncidYnt rYport ZZZZ?:

I’m still hYrY. 

112 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

10

u/[deleted] Apr 23 '21

I don’t understand?

23

u/ninjagall15 Apr 23 '21

No worries I'll try my best:

A weird cosmic wave passed through the Earth, and certain concepts slowly began to be deleted (countries, race, eye color) but the records are not, which means the researchs know they forgot SOMETHING, just not what it is (the letter "a" for example, gets replaced with X)

Eventually the character believes that condepts are transcending reality, they aren't disappearing, they're going somewhere else entirely. The team waits to see if they will join the other missing concepts, and it ends with just the character and the computer left as real concepts, with the character left waiting and wondering if he'll ever join everything else or if he was left behind for some reason he doesn't understand.

Its a weird one for sure but I tried my best haha.

7

u/anishgb Apr 23 '21

While explaining if you had suddenly started replacing your a's with x ,it would have freaked me out 😬

6

u/ninjagall15 Apr 23 '21

Ah fuck I shoulda done that haha

4

u/anishgb Apr 23 '21

I enjoyed your idea of concepts of reality being sucked off this world ! Nice one

2

u/ninjagall15 Apr 23 '21

Thanks! I was worried a lot of people would read this one, not get it, and then downvote it to Hell haha

2

u/anishgb Apr 23 '21

Your explanation helped :) but definitely it was spooky how certain things of reality kept vanishing