Lost Commercial [Ilmo Koskela & Jaakko Koskela]
You pick up a pen drive somewhere forgotten in the Coffee World as your rough shift has ended. You bring it home and plug it on your laptop, finding a folder named “SCRAPPED IDEAS”. Curiosity gets the best of you and you open it, finding only a nameless file. Click it.
It’s a 32-second clip, starting off with a soft song you’d hear at a grocery store in the middle of an aisle, but there’s no pretty image. Just a bland list of places to visit in Watery—something that makes you think it is a work in progress and shouldn’t ever be in your possession. This goes on for five seconds, added with an unintelligible muttering that cuts short before being properly recognized.
Following next is the static image of a forest during three seconds. You hear nothing.
Then, two darkened silhouettes run on the frame, followed by a third undistinguishable figure that distorts the camera in its passing. One is caught by it: they are hooded with a mask, and they are dragged into the branches. Quickly they are undone and dismembered beneath the figure.
The camera zooms in—it is no longer a man.
“Jaakko!” Your boss, Ilmo, voices in. Amidst the splatter, the whimpered cries and gunshots, he screams again, pointing a gun at the creature: “You motherfu—”
Suddenly the tape is cut, leaving you in a state of utter discomfort for a moment.
Two seconds pass by in silence.
The image returns with a blue eye looking straight at the camera, all bled, blinking. It is not Ilmo, nor Jaakko. Its face turns into a smile with wrinkles and an unhinged laugh that you're uncapable of not hearing again and again.
All cuts to black and the song resumes. A text comes in: “COME VISIT US!!” and the clip ends.
Now you understand why your bosses have been so absent lately and why working at the Park has been uneasy since then.
But you also get a strange chill creeping down your spine. Suddenly, you are completely terrified to see what lurks behind you.