While fiction allows me to neatly tie up loose ends by the final chapter, reality is rarely so accommodating. It is the unsolved, the unexplained, and the undocumented that truly keep me awake at night. Here are three enigmatic concepts that heavily inspire the atmosphere of my upcoming trilogy:
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The Vanishing Towns: Settlements that appear on old maps but leave absolutely no archaeological footprint behind. Where did the people go, and why did they take the foundations of their homes with them?
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Cryptic Radio Broadcasts: Number stations that have been broadcasting automated voices reading seemingly random digits since the Cold War. Who is listening on the other end?
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Locked-Room Anomalies: Real historical cases where individuals vanished from rooms bolted from the inside, leaving only impossible footprints or out-of-place artifacts behind.
I weave fragments of these real-world anomalies into my fiction. Sometimes the truth is far stranger—and much darker—than anything I could make up.
