Pandora's Shitbox

           Okay, this is weird, but everyone’s suddenly ansty.   Like something’s wrong and we need to leave.   Now.   But it’s a quiet, nagging thing in the back of our minds. It’s weird.   So Alicia suggested we listen to the feeling and leave.   Even though everyone outside is calming down, those crazy masked people are still out and about, causing problems and hurting people.  Everyone else, including me, aren't as sure we should.  What if everyone that vanished comes back? Alicia says that if that was the case, they would have come back by now.  And it's clear to her the Vanished aren't coming back. I...I don't want to leave.  This is my home.  I grew up here.  My life is here.  I...I'm scared.  I don't want to go outside because I don't know what the weather's going to do.  I don't want to go because those masked creeps might show up. I don't want to leave.   Not yet...

  Okay, because the Weirdness Train apparently wasn’t done yet, some guy in what looks to be red bishop robes and a weird hood to hide his face came into town, preaching that the End Times were upon us and how we need to listen to him so as to ‘seek salvation in the New Gods’.   Everyone in the house agrees:   he’s nuts.   And that’s on top of all the OTHER shit going on.   A lot of looting’s going on right now, so the lanterns and lamps are on dim light to keep people from getting curious.   Windows are mostly boarded up and the heavy curtains brought out, but Al wanted to be on the safe side.   I don’t blame him, though I still wonder about why he knows about those masked dudes. Him, Hal, Alicia and I take turns keeping watch out of the window, making sure to keep the light away so that no one can see.   Never thought I would see the end of the world.   Almost like how the movies portrayed it, but not exactly.   None had ha...

  Did I mention Al was in the military?   Apparently good portion of his family were career military.   I don’t know what branch, but the patch on his jacket is yellow with a horse head on it. Reason I bring that up is that he had to, in his words, ‘plant a few Dumbass Trees’.   Meaning he had to kick some peoples’ asses and send them packing.   Alicia asked why let them live, they could bring more people back. His response was kinda weird, though.   He said that he knows they won’t come back.   They had masks. I told him I wanted more information than that because having masks usually doesn’t mean much.   But no matter how nice or angrily we ask, he wouldn’t say more, only to trust him on that. Hal asked if he was in league with the masks and that got him a nasty look.   So Al does know who and what they are, but by the looks of it, doesn’t want to associate with them anymore.   And definitely doesn’t want to talk about it. ...

  I’m going to just…stop doing the dear journal thing. Yesterday, my mirror grew some hands and tried to reach out to grab me.   Dad heard me scream and took my prop cane to break the hands, causing my mirror to scream before breaking.   Glass shot everywhere, but Dad and I only got small cuts.   Everyone in town tossed out their mirrors an hour after that.   Hand mirrors, full length mirrors, some accent mirrors.   Most were broken so I guess I wasn’t the only one with the hands sticking out. However…however that’s not the worst part.   Worst part is that…that…my parents vanished!   They’re just gone!   Mom was making sure the scratch on my face was okay while Dad talked about how everyone was tossing their mirrors out when they just blinked out!   No Thanos Snap dust, no poof of smoke, nothing!   Just gone!   Everyone still around’s going nuts.   Some people are accusing ex’s of kidnapping their kids, others tryi...

  Dear Journal   Shit’s getting weirder and weirder.   Something has caused all technology to become either unreliable or cease working.   Nuclear power plants aren’t working because the uranium’s gone somehow, most modern vehicles either won’t start or act like they’re choking, (Whatever that means, I don’t know the mechanic lingo) and the International Space Station is apparently malfunctioning so badly that the astronauts there had to get into escape pods and literally plummet back to Earth in them.   Thankfully none of them died but a few did get hurt pretty badly. They landed in the water, thankfully near South Carolina’s shore, but any new boat couldn’t go out to get them, had to use diesel engine tugboats to do it.   The Space Station itself is falling out of the sky, looking to land somewhere in Australia’s Outback. The internet, meanwhile is laggy as all get-out, making it hard to look up anything, and don’t get me started on the tvs and ra...

  Dear Journal   Okay, more weird shit’s going down. Like, what the Hell?   First the sky changing colors, then a weird nightmare literally shared by millions of people with no variation, not to mention the Bird War over a lot of places.   NOW we get weird booming noises from absolutely fucking nowhere.   This isn’t normal.   TV and forums are mentioning all the weird shit going around, and apparently no one knows where the booms are coming from and some of them are pretty loud.   To the point that they can shake the house. Like now.   Yay. Well, I’m going to head to the front room and talk to my parents.   They have decided that this weather and noise shit’s for the birds and are staying home until this mess is over.   Laters.

 Dear Journal More weird stuff’s going down. I looked up to see what Reddit had with dreams and stuff, (Since that one dream was still kinda bugging me) and it turns out there were literally dozens of people that had the exact same dream. Like, right down to the color of the guy’s suit, it was damn freaky.  Someone on the Reddit mentioned the Fear Mythos, which seemed weird because aren’t they the guys that came up with Slender Man and that Jeff the Killer creepypasta? Well, whatever.  Anyway, wanted to mention that the sky’s still green, sun’s still purplish and now the clouds are starting to look a tad brownish.  The really weird part’s is that it rained.   Without clouds. News said the weather’s acting really whacked out now all over the place, raining without clouds, really cloudy day giving nasty sunburns, people in the deserts and hot places are getting FROSTBITE while people in the Artic Circle are suffering from heatstroke!   M...