Age at Incident: 33
Occupation: Assistant Archivist, Rochester Record Office
Residence: Borstal, Kent
Date of Primary Event: 7 February 1985
Summary
Between November 1984 and February 1985, Ms. Marsh filed multiple internal complaints that parish registers in the diocesan archive were *“altering themselves overnight.”*
She cited examples where names previously indexed under M–P vanished, leaving gaps in alphabetical order or replaced by faint impressions of different handwriting styles.
Other staff dismissed the phenomenon as filing errors or humidity damage. However, several original registers subsequently showed no ink deterioration. Instead, blank spaces where names had been were found to fluoresce under ultraviolet light, forming faint looping symbols similar to script seen in other FDG linguistic contamination cases.
Ms. Marsh was first interviewed after a visitor overheard her saying, “It’s rewriting itself — and now it’s taking the witnesses.”
Statement Excerpt (Taken 12 February 1985)
“I thought it was my eyes at first. Names went missing, but only the ones attached to strange deaths — drownings, disappearances.
I stayed late one evening, trying to copy the vanished entries by memory. I looked up, and the words were still moving — crawling like silverfish.
When I came in the next morning, the record for my own birth was gone. I found it later — in another volume, in handwriting that isn’t mine. It was dated a year before I was born.”
Field Notes: (FDG Liaison: Dr. Isla Reeve, 1985)
Initial inspection confirmed a non-material disturbance confined to the archive’s basement storage. The affected area exhibited low-grade magnetic flux and elevated salinity (consistent with fae temporal interference).
A draft through the file room produced whispering at 3.8 Hz (audible range border). Recordings translated by FDG linguistics team revealed fragmented sentences in Middle English: “write thee backward that thou be forgotten.”
Marsh demonstrated partial name dissociation: during questioning, she repeatedly failed to respond to her surname, claiming “it doesn’t belong anymore.”
Containment Measures
The Rochester archives were temporarily closed for “dehumidification.” The corrupted ledgers were transferred to FDG custody. A brass nameplate reading “E. Marsh” was found in the affected room two weeks later, partially fused to the wood.
Eileen Marsh was relocated under observation to an administrative post in Canterbury Cathedral Library. Colleagues report she now insists on signing every page she touches.
Behavioural Observations (Dr. Clara Fenn, FDG Field Psychology)
Persistent anxiety centred on identity stability and written forms of self. Reports seeing her reflection “blur slightly” when her name is spoken aloud. Refuses to use typewriters, stating “the keys rearrange themselves if I look away.”
When handwriting analysis was conducted, her script showed faint mirroring tendencies — loops and stems reversing direction over the course of each page.
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