Prologue

On April 25, 2015, there was a case of missing teenagers in Squirrel Township.

The missing persons are a man and a woman, both locals, both of whom are underage, studying together in a high school in the town.

The night before the incident, on the night of April 24, the two went to a party at the home of high school classmate Jerry Cates before disappearing inside the house. There were nine teenagers between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, four adult seniors, thirteen people in total, all from the same school.

The owners of the house, Jerry Cates’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cates, were not at home at the time. Mr. Cates is busy with business and has been in the South American branch for a long time.

Mrs. Cates is a vocal artist and is currently on tour in Europe with the orchestra.

The students left the Cates home one after another between the early hours of the next day and noon. The last to leave was a senior who left the house at 11:30 am on the 25th and rushed to the Squirrel Town Police Station with Jerry Cates to report the crime to the sheriff.

The Cates home has security cameras. The shots are located under the porch of the main entrance, at the height of the living room, at the corner platform of the stairs leading to the second floor, on the second floor corridor, in the kitchen on the first floor (the back door of the house can be seen), and at the height of the garden fence outside the back door. The cameras were working normally that day, and everyone’s in and out pictures were captured.

The two missing persons entered the door at 8:04 pm on the 24th, but there has been no picture of them walking out of the house since then.

They were last seen on camera at 00:26 on the 25th. They were talking on the living room sofa when a student called them into the hallway. The corridor leads to the bathroom on the first floor, and there are no security cameras in this area. After that, the two never showed up again.

The student who called the two to get up was named Sean Temple, who was the senior who went to report the crime. In the follow-up investigation, Sean has repeatedly described the experience of the day to different investigators.

On one of these occasions, he received a recording, and his account went like this:

“A door appeared outside the toilet at Jerry’s house. Behind the door is the toilet, but it’s not the toilet door. I mean, the toilet door is alright, and it’s a very old wooden door, kind of like a movie set, a circle of stone frames with an arch on it. , the door itself is also arched.

“It was on the wall in the hallway of Jerry’s house, on the other side of the wall was supposed to be the toilet. It wasn’t here a few minutes ago, and then it appeared. I mean the door, not the toilet.

“I called Jerry to come and see. Jerry said he didn’t have anything like this in his house. He guessed who brought the props. At this time, I remembered that Ashley (the missing girl) was a member of the drama troupe, so I called her Come over and ask her if she’s seen this thing. Ashley said no, she thought it’s Jerry’s prank.

“The door didn’t have a handle or anything, and we didn’t even try to open it at first because it was clinging to it and the toilet was on the other side, and of course we thought it was a fake door that was glued to the wall…but At this time, something happened…

“Jerry leaned against the door while arguing that the door wasn’t his…and the door moved. It was pushed by Jerry, and then opened. Jerry almost fell. I thought, If he did fall, he should have fallen into his toilet…but he didn’t.

“Behind the door is a room that none of us have ever seen. Neither has Jerry. It’s dark inside, and there’s a little platform at the door, and further down the platform were stone steps down. It’s kind of like one of those underground storage room entrances.

“Jerry’s house does have an underground storage room, but it’s not here, it’s not on this wall, and on the other side of this wall is the toilet!

“We also deliberately went around the corner and went to the toilet to take a look. The toilet was still the same, there was nothing strange about it. The strange thing was that door.

“We wandered in the hallway for a long time. Not everyone saw it, most people were playing, some were asleep, and there were just four of us standing here. We were all a little lost and couldn’t tell what it was. Scared or something… Then, Roy (the missing boy) came up with a bold idea, he wanted to get in this door and have a look, I didn’t think it was a good idea, but I didn’t stop him too violently at the time.

“Roy was the first to get into the door, Ashley took his hand and followed him. He asked me if I was coming, and I said I was going to get my phone so I could take a picture of it all… etc. When I finally found my phone, Jerry ran out of the hallway and pulled me over in a panic…and the door was gone.

“I didn’t look at the time, I just made an estimate… From when I found the door to when Jerry said the door disappeared, it should have been about ten minutes… No, maybe more than ten minutes? I can’t be sure. Yes, I counted it from the moment I saw the door.

“I asked Jerry exactly how the door disappeared, and he said he didn’t see it clearly, he looked away from the door for a moment, then looked back, and the door was gone, as if it never existed.

Then we searched the house up and down and waited in the house until noon the next day. Roy and Ashley never showed up again. Roy had the phone, Ashley didn’t, we called Roy On the phone, I heard that the other party was not in the service area.

I didn’t tell too many people about it, only my friend Joe (another senior who was involved in the report), he didn’t really believe me, but still suggested we report it. Regardless of Roy and Ash, What the hell happened to Leigh, they just disappeared, didn’t come back, didn’t contact any of us.”

Sean’s statement is a bit wild. The police repeatedly checked whether he used certain drugs or drank too much. He and his relatives and friends all denied it. The local sheriff in Squirrel Town also failed to arrange a drug test for him at the first time.

Another client, sixteen-year-old Jerry Cates, also admitted to seeing a door, but his testimony was somewhat vague.

When facing the Sheriff of Squirrel Town, his narrative was basically the same as Sean’s; a few days later, when the disappearance case began to attract more attention, he told the police that he was not sure what the situation was.

The original words were: “It’s like what Sean said, maybe not. I don’t remember too much.”

A few days later, when another state trooper asked Jerry if he had been drinking, he changed his mind and admitted that he had been drinking, which he had previously denied because he knew he was young.

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One day more than a dozen days after the incident, Sean called Jerry and asked him why he had suddenly changed his statement.

Jerry replied pitifully, “Because I’m not sure. It doesn’t make sense to think about it.”

After hanging up on the landline, Jerry’s phone rang.

He happily picked up the phone: “Yes, I’m Jerry Cates. Are you guys on Deep Dive? Wow! I’m honoured too! Really, I’ve been watching your shows since I was a kid… yes, Yes, I went through that disappearance first hand, and an old door appeared on the wall of my house. Yes, I saw it with my

own eyes.”

The person on the other end of the phone asked, “You said in your email that it’s not the first time you’ve seen this door?”

Jerry answered affirmatively: “Yes. It’s not the first time I’ve seen it. I had a door like this in my house when I was very young.”