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5 min readScary Stories - Descent
A remote drilling site in a frozen, semi-desolate location. A leaky bunkhouse roof. Behind a section of wet drywall, a technical logbook from thirty years ago. The narrator, a current site worker, found it and shares the story exactly as written.
Jack Hutchinson was dropped off at the drilling site on November 21, 1990, via amphibious plane. His monitoring partner, Vladislav—"Vlad, you know, like the impaler"—arrived a few days later from Ukraine. Vlad was a retired deep earth isolation miner, a profession so dangerous that most who enter it either quit early after a scare, have a mental breakdown, or die young in a desolate hole somewhere, their bodies rarely recoverable. He was also, Jack noted, an extremely small man—probably under five feet tall—with enormous hands and feet, and very pale.
The Sleepwalking and the Crater
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What you'll learn
- 1 Scary Stories - Descent: Navigation Outline
- 2 (01:33) **Setup: A Remote Drilling Site and a Hidden Logbook** - The narrator introduces his job at a remote, semi-classified drilling site and the discovery of an old technical logbook hidden in a damaged bunkhouse wall
- 3 (02:54) **Jack's Log Begins: Meeting Vlad** - Jack describes his arrival at the drilling site and his new monitoring partner Vladislav, a retired deep earth isolation miner
- 4 (04:54) **First Signs of Trouble: Vlad Disappears** - Vlad vanishes from the site for two days, then returns acting strangely, with nighttime sleepwalking episodes
- 5 (08:41) **Vlad's Condition Worsens** - Vlad develops a worsening headache and continues his strange nighttime behavior
- 6 (09:22) **The Explosion: Tank Nine Blows** - A massive thud shakes the bunkhouse as tank number nine blows out its bottom end, creating a 50-foot-wide, 8-foot-deep crater
- 7 (11:02) **Discovery of the Iron Cover** - Jack follows Vlad into the crater and watches him clear earth to reveal a mysterious square iron manhole cover with strange markings
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How far would you be prepared to descend into the unknown?
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