Classification: THETA CLASS
Filed: 2024-07-29
The entity known as “Harrowhost” is a convergent horror phenomenon observed across three subzero research installations. Composed of an aggressive cellular fog and fragmented skeletal matter, the anomaly exhibits memory-reactive behavior and targeted emotional induction. Survivors report visual hallucinations of deceased loved ones prior to neural collapse.
Estimated to have formed following the collapse of Subterranean Site-[REDACTED] in 2004, Harrowhost appears to be the result of uncontrolled crosslink between Black Veil sensory dampening protocols and an unprocessed corpse registry.
Harrowhost remembers every name.
Harrowhost is an amorphous, ambulatory construct measuring approximately 2.7 to 4.1 meters across, depending on environmental density and emotional proximity. Its core mass—if one exists—remains unseen. Surrounding it is a mobile veil of bone-dust, ash, shredded vocal cords, and glacial particulate held together through localized paracausal inertia.
The entity does not "move" in the traditional sense. Instead, space compresses between its previous and next intended positions, often accompanied by a deep distortion in all nearby sound waves. Observers describe this effect as the world “leaning” before Harrowhost enters view. In environments with significant emotional residue (memorials, bedrooms, trauma wards), the entity is able to remain phase-stabilized for extended periods.
When Harrowhost approaches, walls weep condensation. Names echo in places where they were never spoken. Observers often recall nonexistent memories—funerals they never attended, deaths of people who never lived. In one instance, a researcher reported vivid recollections of mourning a sister. Background checks confirmed he was an only child.
The fog surrounding the entity contains airborne psycho-reactive debris—thoughtforms crystallized into brittle bone shapes. Touching this mist directly results in memory fragmentation, especially targeting language centers. Survivors of close exposure often lose the ability to form new proper nouns for days to weeks, referring to friends or family as “the thing I miss” or “what I knew.”
Attempts to contain Harrowhost using physical barriers are ineffective. It is not deterred by locked doors, high walls, or light. It simply appears on the other side—often leaving its observers frozen in place, emotionally or literally.
Its presence overwrites meaning. Written words near Harrowhost degrade into scrawlings of forgotten eulogies, and digital logs convert into looping transcripts of names and last words. Mirrors crack in its wake—not from pressure, but from shame.
Containment is defined as redirection, not isolation.
If Harrowhost vocalizes the full name of any Black Veil operative, that individual is to be considered unrecoverable and removed from active roster under cause “Shadow Protocol Failure.”
LOG H-17 – AUDIO FRAGMENT, Site-[REDACTED]
[looping static, then an echoing voice]
“You buried her wrong.”
“She doesn’t remember being cold.”
LOG H-23 – VISUAL SURVEILLANCE
Date: 2025-06-13
Security feed from East Block captured the silhouette of a female figure appearing upside-down on the ceiling above a grieving junior analyst. Upon contact, the analyst’s body erupted in a bloom of black ice, followed by loss of 3 surrounding personnel.
Footage degraded into self-recorded whispers of each victim’s personnel file.
LOG H-30 – PSYCH RECORD
Recovered transcript of Agent Kerev’s final debriefing (deceased):
It showed me my brother. But it wasn’t him. It bled sorrow. Not blood. I asked it what it wanted. It said, ‘a place to rest that doesn’t remember me.’
Harrowhost is not an instinctive predator. It is a manifestation of unresolved memory, a locus of death denied ritual or remembrance. Behavioral data suggests it is both an anomaly and a symptom—formed not merely of remains, but of forgetting.
Its hostility is precise. It does not lash out indiscriminately; it punishes recognition. Subjects who acknowledge its presence directly, or attempt to name it aloud, are far more likely to suffer fatal encounters. This supports the current hypothesis that Harrowhost’s structure is rooted in a form of mnemonic inversion—where being known causes it pain, and thus, retaliation.
Cognitive residue left behind by the entity indicates intelligence, if not sentience. Audio loops recorded at [REDACTED] repeated the phrase:
You knew how she died and chose silence. Now I am the voice of everything you erased.
Corrupted camera logs and reflected speech patterns point toward a central emotional motif: betrayal. Not romantic, but institutional. Harrowhost appears to be a being that remembers being part of a system—discarded or overlooked. Its behavior mimics those seeking accountability, but its methods imply it has lost the capacity for resolution. It does not want justice. It wants to leave scars.
The Black Veil Temporal Division has observed minor chronal slipstreams after Harrowhost retreats, where logs reference personnel long deceased—or never hired. These retroactive edits are unstable, but growing in intensity, suggesting Harrowhost is not only reacting to history, but attempting to overwrite it.
As such, Dr. Marell's standing recommendation remains:
You do not reason with a scream. You wait for it to pass… or you make sure no one ever screams that way again.
Classification under Endling-Pattern Hostile remains pending. Archival team has proposed adding Harrowhost to the Echo Mirror Compendium as a baseline metric for grief-powered distortion entities.
Submitted by: TehLuna