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The original was posted on /r/nosleep by /u/Kosmic_Scribe on 2024-09-08 12:17:32+00:00.

I don’t post things often, but I discovered something quite unusual and frankly quite terrifying the other day. I’m not sure how else to put it but I haven’t been able to think about anything else. I was hoping someone could help me make heads or tails of it.

A little background first. I’m an assistant curator at a pretty famous museum. I won’t say which, as I would like to maintain my anonymity. All you need to know is that we have an unbelievably large archive of artifacts, art, and research. Takes a lot of manpower to organize, manage, and digitize them. Anyways, I was going through boxes of records from field teams the other day when I came across a satellite communication device. It’s just an audio recording device that lets field teams, who probably don’t have internet where they work, to record logs on what they find. This isn’t anything out of the ordinary for me. I do, however, absolutely hate coming across them as it was my job to transcribe the hours of recordings on these devices. I love my work, but every job has its tedious duties. Thankfully when I opened the files, there were only 22 logs. I should mention that the device that I have is not the original recorder the team had with them, but is only a receiver. We don’t receive the recordings in real time as it takes an exhaustingly long time for any data to be transferred between these devices over great distances. It is, however, a reliable way to keep records. Usually the team would arrive home before their recordings do. This is only done as a precaution if the original device is lost.

The other files, along with the satellite device, included information on the research team and other files pertaining to their mission. I won’t be specific, but the team was sent to the outskirts of Jordan to investigate a previously undiscovered Mesopotamian ruin. 

Anyways, I’m just going to put the finished transcriptions here for you guys. I’ll be adding additional notes of what I think I hear in the background. The names of those involved have been changed. I hope you understand. Date and time listed are in (mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss) format. The following logs were received in September of 2020. 

Log 1 (05/11/2019 09:13:42)

Milo: Hey, what’s up guys? Just casually making history out here. Or uncovering it I suppose.

Carter: Milo, put that down, it’s not a toy.

Milo: Just having a bit of fun. Alright, gotta go. Don’t forget to hit that like and subscribe.

Carter: MILO!

End of Log 1

Log 2 (05/11/2019 23:33:02)

It sounds like it’s raining heavily in the background.

Bob: How does this thing work? 

Milo: Just hit that button on the top. 

Bob: There’s like four buttons on the top.

John: Is the red light on?

Bob: Yep.

John: Then it’s working.

Bob: Oh. Okay, the progress here is slow. Well, we haven’t even begun to investigate the site yet. A massive freak storm hit us the moment we got here, and we’ve just been waiting it out. That’s it, right?

Carter: Yeah, that’s all for now. Looks like we’re gonna be waiting a while.

Milo: OH SHIT!

Milo’s comment is immediately followed by the sound of thunder.

End of Log 2

Log 3 (05/12/2019 12:16:05)

Milo: Let me tell them.

Carter: No. I’m the team leader here, so I get to tell them.

Milo: You won’t say it with gravitas.

Bob: Come on, let’s go. We’ve got things to prep.

Milo: THIS IS MOMENTOUS CARTER!

Bob and Milo’s voices and footsteps die down.

Carter: Alright. You would not believe our luck. So, the storm has passed but a lightning bolt last night struck the site. There’s a massive crater, yes, but don’t worry, it gets good. It opened up an untouched tunnel system under the site. We found it earlier today and by the looks of it, we think it’s manmade. Can’t be sure yet. We’re going in to investigate tomorrow. We won’t go in too far. However old it is, I doubt its architectural integrity. Don’t have much to report right now. Hopefully, I’ll have more tomorrow. Don’t want to get my hopes up but we might be standing on something huge. Maybe Milo was right about me lacking gravitas.

End of Log 3

Log 4 (05/13/2019 08:34:18)

Milo and Bob can be heard yelling in the background at the start of the recording, although I can’t make out what they’re saying. Everyone’s voices in this log are noticeably echoing.

Carter: It’s exactly what we had hoped and maybe more. We’re at the tunnel system right now and there are carvings and symbols all over the walls. I don’t recognize what culture they belonged to, but it definitely isn’t Mesopotamian. The architecture  doesn’t match any of the ruins above.

John: It doesn’t look like any ancient language we have records of. This might actually be something new.

Carter: You hear that? We might have found a new ancient civilization. This changes the entire timeline of human history. This could be fucking Atlantis for all we know.

Bob: Carter! John!

Footsteps gradually grow louder in the background.

Bob: We found a door.

John: Holy fu—

End of Log 4

Log 5 (05/13/2019 08:39:56)

Milo: Can’t we just grab a few sticks of dynamite? We did pack some after all.

Bob: No, you idiot. You want to destroy priceless artifacts and bring this entire tunnel down on us?

Milo: One stick of dynamite.

Carter: Guys, shut up. Okay, we’re at the end of the tunnel system. It’s about three hundred meters from the opening we came in from. I know I said we won’t go in that far, but this is really exciting. Anyways we found a … door?

John: More like a wall, honestly. Looks angry too.

Carter: It’s a massive flat circular rock that’s blocking the tunnel. There’s a face carved on it. Milo got some photos, so I won’t bother trying to describe it. John’s right though. It does look quite ferocious.

Bob: And ugly.

Carter: We’re documenting everything here, don’t worry.  

End of Log 5

I didn’t find any of the photos they described among the files.

Log 6 (05/13/2019 16:21:22) 

Carter: Quite the day we had. God, I still can’t believe how lucky we got. This is incredible. We’ll go investigate further tomorrow but we’re gonna have to wait for a larger team to arrive. We don’t have the manpower or the equipment to handle something of this magnitude. Some of us want to force our way through and as exciting as that sounds, every brick and stone in that tunnel are considered artifacts and evidence of this civilization. Can’t have them damaged. Maybe if we pry it open somehow. Just thinking out loud.

There’s yelling in the background.

Carter: What are they doing now?

End of Log 6

Log 7 (05/13/2019 16:24:10)

John: Give me that.

Carter: Hang on. Just, run me through what happened again.

John: Milo and I were bringing back the equipment we left near the tunnel.

Carter: Right.

John: And a man came stumbling out of the tunnel system, yelling at us.

Carter: What do you mean he came out of the tunnel?

John: I mean I— well Milo saw him first, but we watched him crawl out of the tunnel.

Carter: There’s nothing in the tunnel. It’s a straight shot to the dead end.

John: Yeah, I know that. I’m just telling you what I saw.

Carter: Did he come from the direction of where the tunnel is or did he actually–

John: Carter, I’m fucking telling you he came out of the tunnel. I don’t know, maybe there’s another opening we missed.

Carter: You said he was yelling?

John: Yeah. Well, I don’t know. I turned my hearing aids off cause Milo was being annoying. Milo heard it, though.

Carter: Milo? Milo!

Milo: Huh? Yeah?

Carter: What was the man saying?

Milo: I don’t— I don’t know. I didn’t understand it.

Carter: And where is this man now?

John: I don’t know. He’s just gone.

Carter: Into thin air?

John: Well, there’s not a whole lot of places to hide out here so yeah, maybe. Didn’t get a good look at him. Milo, tell him.

Carter: Milo? Where’s Milo?

End of Log 7

Log 8 (05/13/2019 22:07:11)

Carter: Alright, we’re all back at camp. Milo’s not feeling that well right now. Hopefully he gets better in the morning. I still want to go back to that tunnel tomorrow. Maybe see if that door would budge.

Bob: What happened out there? Milo is really shaken up.

Carter: I don’t know. They said they saw a man coming out of the tunnel.

Bob: What?

Carter: You think this is another one of Milo’s antics?

Bob: I’m not sure about that. Have you seen the state he’s in? Besides, didn’t John say he saw the man too?

Carter: Yeah.

Bob: What do we do?

Carter: There’s nothing to do except our job. How do you delete recordings on this anyway?

Bob: You’re asking the wrong person.

End of Log 8

Log 9 (05/14/2019 09:33:48)

Carter: I don’t know how but the door is opened. I was bringing our equipment for today’s excursion, and there it was. The circular stone face had been rolled aside. Still can’t really believe it. I’m going to go get the others to take a look inside. Gonna need to bring some headlights. This is big. I can feel it.

End of Log 9

Log 10 (05/14/2019 10:56:27)

Once again, everyone’s voice is echoing.

Bob: This whole thing must be massive.

John: Be careful. Nobody touch a thing.

Carter: John’s right. We’re just here to observe for now. Milo, hand me the lamp.

Milo: I’ve got a bad feeling about this place.

John: Yeah. Especially what we saw yesterday.

Carter: Enough of that.

Bob: Carter, bring the light here.

Carter: Yep.

Bob: How far down does that go?

Carter: Can’t even see the bottom. I suppose these carvings would…

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