Problems with Transmission

The program was supposed to start at nine o’clock, but instead the message ‘Problems with Transmission’ appears, and blinks out after a second into a hastily chosen sitcom.

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The show, “Evidence of the Supernatural” was meant to be on, but what’s wrong? What’s happened to cause the show, which promised startling new evidence of the paranormal, to be cancelled?

Possibilities

1 The shows evidence was a method an occultist, Randall Illings, had devised to allow a person to see the spirit world. It was a bluish grey powder he had found the recipe for in a book, and it promised to reveal the hidden worlds and dimensions all around us. Illings had cameras set up, and machines built to continuously spread the powder.

Illings had created a large amount of the Powder of Ibn Ghazi, a material that allows humans to see into other dimensions, and ravenous things to look back. When the police arrived to investigate a frantic phone call from the studio, they found nothing but piles of empty clothes scattered around the building. All of the people had been consumed by the other dimensional creatures, leaving nothing but empty clothing.

The tape of the event has not yet been examined, and is in storage at an FBI Forensics Lab.

2 Randall Illings had found a lot of interesting mentions of government research into the paranormal. He had found conclusive evidence of the CIA testing clairvoyance and fire-starting abilities in a document dating to 1970, and he was going to present this on the show.

However, the paranormal research group, which has since gone rogue, discovered this and secretly poisoned the food of the crew cafeteria. Illings however, a strict vegan, had prepared his own food and escaped poisoning. As people dropped dead around him, Illings fled the scene just as the rogue agents were arriving.

The agents burned down the building and stole the evidence linking them to the murders. As Illings is the only person not accounted for, he is being hunted by the police for the murder of around 60 people, with the rogue agents looking for him as well.

3 The show has been cancelled due to cold feet on the studio’s part. Nobody at the network broadcasting the show really had any truck with the supernatural, and cancelled the show at the last minute.

Randall Illings’ evidence was a 16th Century French manuscript on opening a portal to another plain of existence. Illings has promised his fans that he will show them the manuscript and perform the ritual on a podcast tomorrow night.

© Paul Hebron