I Was Hired to Audit a Dead Company's Assets. I Found Something Disturbing.
August 10, 2026
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5 min readA bookkeeper is hired to audit the assets of a bankrupt tech company in South Dakota, whose elderly owner died in a home invasion. Sifting through decades of paperwork, he keeps encountering a single, unexplained line item: "Flamingo." What begins as a routine liquidation job spirals into a disturbing investigation of a secret, decades-long project—and a creature that is still looking for what it needs to survive.
The Recurring Line Item
The narrator worked for a firm that evaluated assets for liquidation. When the owner of a small, private tech company died, the narrator was sent to process the inventory. The work was tedious—mostly verifying that listed assets actually existed. But buried in budgets, delivery receipts, and R&D reports from the 1970s onward, one word kept appearing: "Flamingo." It was a recurring cost, never explained. It appeared alongside receipts for glycerin, antifreeze, and something called "compound five mix B." The narrator set it aside, assuming it was a project name.
Then the regional office was broken into. The door had been smashed from the inside, the lock untouched. Nothing valuable was stolen. The only thing disturbed was a supply closet. Inside, a single box had been torn to shreds. Taped to its side was a yellow note: "Flamingo."
Chrissy and the Compound
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:55) **Setup: The Weirdest Job Story** - The narrator sets the scene at an after-work mixer, contrasting a funny anecdote about erotic art with a much stranger story they rarely tell: the story of "Flamingo."
- 2 (03:50) **The Assignment and the Mystery Word** - The narrator receives files for a small, private tech company whose elderly owner died in a home invasion, and begins the tedious process of cataloging decades of paperwork.
- 3 (08:40) **The Broken Office** - The narrator arrives at the trashed office in South Dakota, where the police point out a bizarre detail: the front door was smashed *from the inside*.
- 4 (13:18) **The Storage Space Intruder** - The narrator visits the company's rented storage space, where they are startled by a violent, unseen presence that smashes a light and disappears.
- 5 (17:50) **The Files of "Chrissy"** - Back at a motel, the narrator connects the name "Chrissy" to the drawing and uncovers medical reports and transcripts about a girl who has been part of "Flamingo" since the 1970s.
- 6 (20:24) **The Disturbing Morning and the CDs** - After a restless night, the narrator finds the boxes they closed are now open, and discovers audio recordings of Chrissy's sessions.
- 7 (25:25) **The Night Shift Intruder** - Working late in the office, the narrator hears a noise and hides as a tall, gangly, naked-skinned creature breaks in and begins tearing through the "Flamingo" boxes.
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Show Notes
I need a new job. Written by: Saturdead
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