FDG FIELD REPORT
File No: HP-44
Classification: Mirecourt Entity Manifestation – Active Surveillance Recommended
Codename: The Heron on the Hospital Roof
Location: Medway Hospital, Rochester, Kent
Date of Incident: October 7–10, 1998
Status: Semi-Closed – Marked for Recurrence Watch

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Initial Summary

Between the evenings of October 7 and 10, 1998, Medway Hospital security footage recorded a single heron standing motionless atop the maternity ward roof. The bird did not feed, blink, sit, or respond to any external stimuli, including floodlights, rainfall, or bird-deterrent broadcasts.

The footage was archived under an incident log labelled “unexplained avian behaviour.”
Nurses reported that the bird “felt like it was watching the floor below.”

On the third night—October 10, at 02:11 a.m.—four newborns in the ward ceased crying at once and entered what hospital staff termed a “profound shared sleep event.” No intervention was successful in waking them until 16 hours later.

Except for one.

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Phenomenon Description

Sleep Event Anomalies:

• Infant Group:
  • 4 newborns (ages 2–6 days)
  • Simultaneous loss of vocalisation, reflex, and eye movement
  • Vitals stable throughout
  • Skin temperature rose slightly—no signs of fever
• Dream Reports (Parents):
  All four sets of parents independently described vivid dreams during the incident, later corroborated in post-event interviews:
  • Standing in a white field, utterly silent
  • A tall figure with a heron’s skull for a face, dressed in flowing grey-blue robes
  • The figure raised one long finger and spoke the words: “Only one hour left.”
• Aftermath:
  • Three infants awoke normally, but all now bear faint, spiral-shaped marks between their shoulder blades (not present at birth)
  • One infant, Callum J. [surname redacted], never regained consciousness. Cause of death listed as “unexplained cardiac regression.”
  • Heron vanished from the roof at 03:00 a.m. No trace was left—not even droppings or feather residue

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Known Entity Involvement

• Suspected Entity: The Heron Prince
• Behaviour Consistent With:
  • Observation before death or transition
  • Involvement in infant selection, marking, or abduction proxy rituals
  • Manifestation via rooftop, graveyard, and liminal spaces
  • Sleep-induced visitation via shared dreamfields
• Mark Identification:
  • Spirals resemble Mirecourt glyph for “taken but not gone.”
  • Identical marks found in previous Mirecourt-connected infant cases in 1973, 1951, and possibly 1879 (re: the “Cot Cradle Spiral” documented in rural Chatham)

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Hospital and FDG Action

• Security footage seized by FDG under cover of avian flu investigation
• Surveillance scrubbed from hospital archive
• Staff interviews archived under witness file #HP-44-A through D
• Surviving children added to FDG Watch Registry – all currently stable
• Autopsy of deceased infant inconclusive
  • No sign of trauma
  • Heart tissue appeared “faintly mineralised” in one chamber
  • MRI revealed brief flickers of motion in optic nerve 4 hours after death

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Ongoing Recommendations

• Birthmarks monitored annually for change or activity
• Parents encouraged to keep dream journals until age 16
• Heron sightings on medical facility rooftops flagged for immediate review
• FDG Operative (Heron-Class) to check all maternity ward windows during rain or fog

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Quote from Mother of Infant #3 (Interview HP-44-C):

“He didn’t speak like a man. It was like a weight in my chest, whispering through my ribs. When he said there was only one hour left, I thought it meant death. But now I wonder—what happens after that hour?”

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File Status:

🟠 Open Under Surveillance – Marked for pattern re-emergence
🔴 Entity Identified – High-risk symbolic actor; observation-only protocol advised

Filed by:
Operative Aldwych, Faunal Division
Approved by:
Dr. V. Thorne
Filed: 19 October 1998
Reviewed: May 2025 – subject identities under sealed record