Succubus encounter

    The Paranormal Control Agency,

    The Bureua of Paranormal Research and Containment,

   Project Shadow Walkers,

   The Crown's Defense against Darknes and Evil,

  The list can go on, and those are just a few that have existed here in the west in the last century. Everywhere you go there is usually one or more of these in every country. Always have been. Sometimes they claim to be members of some ancient clandestine group protecting mankind since ancient times; the truth is there is usually some old guy or some...survivor in some cases, from one of the previous either defunct, defunded, or...defeated, groups that either founds a new one or worms his way into and spreads this mindset to a new project that had a different goal; usually because they got the new group to run afoul something they shouldn't have and begin the whole shit show over again. Truth is they are all near useless, they are either a government or privately funded version of a bunch of kids screwing around with night vision cameras, a ouija board and going off folktales to walk around the woods and abandoned buildings at night jumping at their own shadows; or else they are no better than some Miedeval witch and vampire hunters out to persecute anyone they can find fitting some old ridicilous criteria for what they call evil. The former is better known, but the later are out there and more common than you know, secretly kidnapping, torturing, and murdering people around the globe because they think they are witches and vampires; thankfully...and I do mean it; those later do tend to get found and either disbanded or actually stumble across something real that takes them out, causing any survivors to split...until they thik they can do better; well that takes us back to what I said earlier, starting the shit show over again.

   In America right now, here in the good ole U.S. of A, there are at least six or seven; maybe more groups like this, three of which run by the federal government, the others are either state or private organizations with high ranking military, government, and/or wealthy backers. But I have to reitterate not a damn one of them really knows what they are doing, and the ones you think might are into some seriously shady shit.

  To get down to it, I won't mention the state, city, or anything like that just so some little shit out there doesn't get the idea in their head to go investigate. Nor will I mention who backed us, but yes, I was part of one of these groups. I was a guard/retrieval guy, just one of the grunts. We had a holding facility, yes we had people locked in rooms like a prison or an old asylum. Some of which I was certain were just crazy, a few were supposedly being held because "something" dangerous was attatched to them and would follow them anywhere so were being held to study and prevent these ghosts or whatever from harming anyone else. How they contained them to specific rooms was something only the "experts" knew. I can confirm some of them were definetly real, I was part of a team that found a guy in the basement of an old building who for all accounts was dead and came back to life in the lab; I was there outside the door as they interviewed this; and i know how crazy this will sound; vampire. I can attest that the site I was a guard at was listed as one of ten sites in the state, and we were a low threat facility. If we found evidence of real cursed artifacts or something; well; something out of our league, we either acted as back up or called in one of those other teams supposedly better equipped to handle it.

   To get to the point, one of our jobs was to peruse local news, online forums, chat rooms, for key words. This was grunt work that we rotated on between guard duty with each other at the facility; most finds the online bot snagged were folklore sites, another of a billion urban legend and cryptid retellings; but the comments on some of those were what we were really supposed to be watching; along with all sorts of other sites like Facebook, Reddit, and others. I understand lots of teams across the country devoted hundreds of man hours a week to just this; we were trained to tell bullshit stories, fictional tales, from the real deal; even when the person who posted it tried to play it off as fake. Often they'd share it to some site they'd think it would be buried on, trying to just get it off their chest, have a friend of a friend post it on Deviantart, Fictionpress, change some names around to pass it off as fanfiction; to put it bluntly...this was ceaseless tiresome work. But we'd see certain aspects of a story, certain details, and figure out something real was going on, correlate accounts, descriptions. It is how the facility I work at got ourselves a little goblin looking thing locked away, the freak immitates human speach, makes sounds like a sobbing woman, crying baby, some guy moaning "help me", lures you into the bushes and would then attack and try to eat you. One person lasted this thing for weeks, it had no problem eating rotting meat; and we found out it could eat other animals; its species pulls the same trick with other animals immitating the sounds of their young, weak, even luring in foxes and coyotes by immitating the sounds of baby deer and injuried rabbits. But I digress, catching that thing was for years the highlight of my career; I had caught wind of a locally posted story online, asking if it was related to other similar creatures in urban legends and if anyone else had heard about...well something like it in their area; always nice when they give you their locations to narrow it down. But again, I digress.

  But maybe it was my ego from catching that thing, the fact thanks to that they trusted me to be put on guard duty for the vampire kid they were studying in his sealed tight room save for hatches to send in sacks of animal blood; that got me to be so careless. We had picked up on a series of dissapperances and murders between six or so cities, the people who vanished were well known drug dealers, gang members, frequents at local bars, most with sexual assault charges already on their records. In one city it was a blown up case, two girls rescued from a white windowless van, the bodies of four men found around the van; the police were pressured to say they were attacked by a group that saw the abductions and chased them down, beating them to death; the truth is and the two girls reported this, a single individual had done it. These men had according to the girls who were tied up in back stopped to grab a third girl; they heard them talking outside the van, at first they thought the girl sounded okay, then frightened and the men were attacking her; but then, they were screaming, and the sounds of high pitched eagle like shrieks sounding like what a bird would sound like if it could laugh according to the older of the two girls. The smaller one said a superhero saved them, someone like Captain Marvel or Wonder Woman, the older one saw the carnage, as did the police, as did I and our team; via photographs taken by the police. One man had his intestines, stomach, gallbladder and pancrease ripped out, heart and left lung pierces and torn through, and two ribs sliced into, like a claw tore into his abdomen and pull out a handful of whatever it could grab. Second man was found under the van, death was internal burning and ruptures as if by a microwave oven. Third man was dead in the driver's seat, found in a state like he had been struggling with the belt, window was broken in, the left side of his skull and face were crushed, size of the area suggested a human sized hand with incredible strength and sharp edges;  not unlike the disembowled corpse on the street. The fourth man was likely in the passenger side of the van, two men had gotten out to attack what they percieved was a woman, one stayed in the driver's seat, and when all hell broke loose, the passenger side individual fled the scene. He was found dead nearby, face crushed into the back of his skull, like an elephant had stepped on his head with the surface area of a small foot.

   In case you can't figure it out, our surperiors were excited about these signs, the correlations between victims, and some local reddit posts. We had one or more succubi. That is what they said. Something no team ever had ever managed to capture or kill, listed up there with the "nightmare" creatures like Silent Wanderers, and Fairy Queens...and no I won't get into those; only there is a list called the "Nightmare" list that basically says, "Leave the fuck alone". Succubi are on that list; normally they haunt places, go after individuals, in real life they do drain life energy or astral or chi or whatever the fuck the "experts" wanted to call it, but didn't need to seduce anything, feeding on wild life and plants; but they had a thing for sexual energy, and every so often they'd be known to go all serial killer on sexual predators. I don't know why, maybe they don't like competition, you'd have to find one of the so called experts and ask them; if even they knew. I say these titles we give them are bullshit, and we are naming things based on their current diets and activities, like thinking a clown and a police officer are two different species. But again, I don't know. What I do know is, they are on that list for a reason.