The following was the last journal entry of one Jason S. Wiley-- purported to have gone mad before both he and his dog went missing. The journal entry was not dated, though officials have determined that the entry was written on or around January 17, 2004. Wiley was 27 years old.

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Death waited outside his door.

He'd been feeling more distraught as of late. Simultaneous emotional paralysis and overwhelming discontent. Thinking that maybe They had done this to him.

He was home-- by himself except for the company of his old dog. She was fifteen, half-deaf, and going blind. The night before, she'd peed right in front of him, unashamed, right on the carpet.

Death was calling to her. Death waited outside her door.

He'd been preparing to make dinner-- something he rarely did for himself-- when the tiniest sound found his ear.

Was it the wind?

He got very still, and turned to face the black door.

It was night outside, and the vertical blinds covering the sliding glass door had been pushed aside-- earlier in the day, maybe, to let the sunlight in-- revealing a smooth, monolithic uterine lining of black.

The sound grew as the Door beckoned to him.

Would he see the pinprick light this time? Was the candle flame out there, burning, staring straight through him (as he slept, as he ate and walked)?; in every room of the house he saw the flame as it saw him.

Was it out th---

And then the sound changed form. The call of the wind became the call of a Dying Thing-- a rabbit murderously tortured, mewling in terror like a child.

He drew nearer the Door; fork from the sink grasped in hand; persisting.

Solid.

Solid;

His heart beat faster.

He stared into the gaping womb of awesome and unyielding blackness. Left Foot, trembling, proffered Big Toe. Big Toe slid the wooden stake into the sliding door frame, without Eyes belying a thing to the Thing that bored its own intent and malefice into him.

He jerked the vertical blinds shut, his gaze unwavering (Oh God oh God did it know could it feel him did it know he was lying----), and threw the frozen fish back into the freezer. In a blanched silence he glided, slid across the floor to stand over the old dog. She was panting.

Bless her heart, he thought. She hasn't heard a thing.

The tortured cry outside had ceased. The silence had moved in.  Blackness rippled and writhed at the edge of his vision.

He bent down, stroked her soft fur-- cherishing what were to be his last few moments with the old dog. From his position he watched a car pull up outside. Its driver clearly wasn't from the area; he parked oddly and stepped out of the car, leaving the car still running and the headlights blazing.

The tall man just stood there, staring at the house.

After an indeterminate amount of time, he noticed the man had gone-- how long, or when exactly the man had gone, he wasn't sure. The car's headlights-- which he realized he had been staring into, transfixed (--how long? HOW LONG?!)-- were extinguished.

But for how long they had been extinguished, he couldn't say.

The man had come (They knew) and gone.

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Police have ruled out the possibility of suicide, as no bodies were found at the scene. The only notable pieces of evidence consisted of a puddle of urine in Wiley's front entryway and a hardened pool of candle wax in the back yard. More than a month after Wiley's disappearance, and with no substantial leads or evidence, officials have called off their search.