Creature no.85
What’s in the Box?
Discovery date: April 1st, 1967
Creature type: Atmospheric
Threat potential: 1

Diary Entry//01

Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night. But I wasn’t at home, I was in this dingy room with moldy and tattered wallpaper. It smelt horrible and I wasn’t myself, not anymore. ~J

In the mid to late 1960’s there were reports of many children in neighborhoods in the US experiencing vivid nightmares. These ‘nightmares’ involved the children being transformed into formless gray masses inside of what appeared to be a gift box. The children would then be met with the sight of a giant gray hand slowly contorting and making gestures at them. However, the expectation was for the kids to gather they clumps of goopy flesh and slowly imitate the forms made by the hand.

SE-02:

Jack watched silently as the hand formed the next gesture. He wanted to scream out in terror but his fleshy gray mass had no mouth. He watched as the hand got closer and closer slowly looming over him. He felt so small. He started to give in and play the hand’s game. But his pride got the better of him. On the next shape, instead of following the hand, the teen formed his gray tendrils into the shape of a middle finger. Unfortunately the hand understood this gesture and got visibly agitated. In an instant the scenery changed around Jack, they were now in some kind of graveyard. The sky was pitch black and there were towering piles of powdered gray material everywhere. Jack was cornered by the hand. In that moment the hand became more grotesque its fingers looking more like tree branches. It multiplied. Screaming silently with the power of a freight train. The hands begin to lift Jack out of the box–A bell rings, and then it was done.

Other than emotional distress, nothing substantial had happened as a result of these instances. Just another case of mass hysteria. But the victims can’t help but wonder what would happen if they had gotten out of the box? So far there have been no more reports of this phenomenon and knowledge of THE HAND is starting to fade from memory.