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Hello everyone.

I hope you're all doing well.

We're back at it again this week with another collection of spine-tangling stories. Let's dive in as we drift further into Mr. Creep's mind.

There is a secret research station at the bottom of the sea. I regret signing up to work there.

Written by Certain Emergency 1-222-2.

The nearest research station is a secret undersea research facility that was built nine years ago.

It's owned and run by the U.S. Navy and located in the western Pacific Ocean. More specifically, it's thousands of feet

below the surface, on the edge of an ocean trench that plummets to 32,000 feet at its deepest point.

Supposedly, the purpose of the Nereus is to study microbial life forms and the effects

of ocean acidification on them.

Although, I never believed that explanation.

There's far too much secrecy surrounding it for that to be the case.

How do I know all of this?

Because I was on my way there.

As our deep seas submersible descended past the twilight zone, the first seed of doubt took hold and began to sprout. Back in my too big, too empty house in Boston, I had been sure that this was what I needed,

complete isolation from the rest of the world, a place where I could grieve privately, away

from the prying eyes of my friends and coworkers, and frankly, I hadn't even expected them to pick me.

I had met all the basic requirements in the job posting, experience working in remote

environments with limited medical support, three years of emergency medicine practice,

no disqualifying health conditions, and so on.

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