The Silent Visitors
A small town experiences strange phenomena after an unidentified object crashes into a nearby forest. As residents begin to disappear, the last survivor uncovers a secret the government desperately wants to erase.
That evening, the sky over Gray Hollow was as clear as glass. No one paid much attention to the flickering green light at the edge of the woods—no one, except Sam, a seventeen-year-old boy obsessed with astronomy.
Through his battered telescope, Sam watched a teardrop-shaped object spiral silently down into the forest, vanishing behind the trees without a sound. Minutes later, a convoy of unmarked military trucks rumbled into the woods under the cover of darkness.
By morning, it was as if nothing had happened.
Except something had.
The town’s dogs howled through the night. The trees near the crash site shed their leaves, despite the fact that it was mid-spring. And then, the first people disappeared: Dr. Walter, Miss Annie from the school—both gone overnight, no explanation, no goodbyes.
Sam’s gut twisted with unease.
At the town’s aging library, buried under decades of dust, he found a forgotten file labeled "Operation Harvest." It spoke of a failed alien recovery mission from 1947, marked top secret in shaky red ink.
When Sam tried to ask around, the townsfolk either laughed nervously or looked away, their smiles too stiff to be real.
One night, driven by a restless fear he couldn't explain, Sam ventured into the woods. There, under the pale light of a dying moon, he saw them:
Tall figures with silver eyes, gliding soundlessly between the trees. Wherever they passed, the ground blackened, as if life itself was being drained away.
Panicked, Sam raced home, only to find his family’s house abandoned.
Silent. Empty.
On the kitchen table, he found a crumpled piece of paper with just a few hastily scrawled words:
"They have chosen. No one escapes."
The next morning, Gray Hollow had vanished from every map.
On Google Maps, all that remained was an endless stretch of dense, unmarked forest.
No one outside remembered the town.
Or at least,
that’s what they wanted you to believe.
Through his battered telescope, Sam watched a teardrop-shaped object spiral silently down into the forest, vanishing behind the trees without a sound. Minutes later, a convoy of unmarked military trucks rumbled into the woods under the cover of darkness.
By morning, it was as if nothing had happened.
Except something had.
The town’s dogs howled through the night. The trees near the crash site shed their leaves, despite the fact that it was mid-spring. And then, the first people disappeared: Dr. Walter, Miss Annie from the school—both gone overnight, no explanation, no goodbyes.
Sam’s gut twisted with unease.
At the town’s aging library, buried under decades of dust, he found a forgotten file labeled "Operation Harvest." It spoke of a failed alien recovery mission from 1947, marked top secret in shaky red ink.
When Sam tried to ask around, the townsfolk either laughed nervously or looked away, their smiles too stiff to be real.
One night, driven by a restless fear he couldn't explain, Sam ventured into the woods. There, under the pale light of a dying moon, he saw them:
Tall figures with silver eyes, gliding soundlessly between the trees. Wherever they passed, the ground blackened, as if life itself was being drained away.
Panicked, Sam raced home, only to find his family’s house abandoned.
Silent. Empty.
On the kitchen table, he found a crumpled piece of paper with just a few hastily scrawled words:
"They have chosen. No one escapes."
The next morning, Gray Hollow had vanished from every map.
On Google Maps, all that remained was an endless stretch of dense, unmarked forest.
No one outside remembered the town.
Or at least,
that’s what they wanted you to believe.
Comments