SPOILERS BELOW - SPOILERS BELOW
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1906 – Apr 18 - The San Francisco Earthquake stops
work on the “new spur”.
1906 – July - Discovery of the artifacts in the
shell mound – Professor Kroeber sends letter to various contacts in the regions
of origin of the mask, stone disc, basketry disc and stone pestle. Kroeber is
distracted by other work and the appearance of Ishi and fails to note the single
relevant reply, from the University of British Columbia.
1915 May 23 – Date of the odd Ishi recording
which contains a reference to Tsonoqua.
1921 Feb. 3 - The UBC warehouse is plundered by unknown
vandals.
1921 Oct. 16 - That night Tom Rogan, the old
switchman, hears a godawful howling… Like a dog or a coyote… But loud … From
the new spur… where they got some cars for months now. Told Clancy to have a
look the next morning… There was a singing kinda… Later. Didn’t sound like it
came from the Tent… They had their Revival in the afternoon Sunday… Not late. Little
Angelina got to the stand, bought the oranges and dawdled to watch the trains…
She spoke with other kids who were playing on the tracks. They went south along
the tracks, following a creek-bed and said she was still there when they last
saw her. (She said she was listening to the singing…)
1921 Oct. 18 - Rev. Ambrose is missing, though
this is not immediately known as his wife covers it up.
1921 Oct. 21 - The Rev returns and is apprehended
by the investigators.
1921 Nov. - Early in the month, the reverend dies
accidently – hit by a train.
1921 Nov. 20 - Prof. Kroeber returns.
1921 Nov. 28 Prof Kroeber, having discovered the
1906 reply from UBC, sends out a new wave of letters.
1921/1922 Late Dec. – Early January – Estimated time of attack on Caquarimiut
band at Kokechic Bay.
1922 Mar. 6 - The coyote has been seen around the
Visitacion Valley tunnel and the remnant of the shell mound since late October.
It has been howling the last couple of nights. Old Tom Rogan is badly affected
by… something . Apparently the same singing he heard before.
PANIC
GRIPS VISITACION VALLEY _ ANOTHER CHILD MISSING
Another little girl has vanished in
Visitacion Valley.
Little
Mindy Jones disappeared from behind her family’s house in the evening last
night. The child, seven years old, had been sent out to return the family
chickens to their coop, just before sunset, and the alarm was raised within the
half hour.
The Jones house is somewhat isolated along
the road to the Johnson and Brown Dairy and it was at least another half hour
before police and local volunteers arrived in force to search.
Residents recall the tragic loss of Angelina
Rossi, whose horribly mutilated body was found days after her disappear- ance
in mid-October of last year. Because of
the previous awful events, Captain Morgan of Southern Station has immediately
called in the same deputy from Half-Moon-Bay whose tracker dogs finally
discovered the remains of little Angelina.
It may be recalled that, while foul play was
strongly suspected, the death of Angelina Rossi was finally attributed to an
accident while playing on the railroad tracks. What has never been clearly
established is how the body was found after several days in a location which
had been searched repeatedly.
1922
Mar. 7 – The investigators revisit Visitacion Valley and speak to
various persons including Tom Rogan.
1922
Mar. 8 – The investigators visit the Lowie, meet Prof. Kroeber and
his colleagues, and convince him to secure the very odd artifact, (the one
which has a five pointed star of tarred cords securing a sandstone lozenge to a
granite slab) in a convenient safe. The investigators get access to the
professor’s correspondence about the artifact at this time.
It seems that the coyote is gone from Visitacion Valley.
1922 Mar. 9 – Apparently the date Benjamin
Geitner was approached by pawn broker Rex Morganthal. Morganthal wanting to
borrow $7000 to buy gold…
Mar 12 - Sunday – Death of Pawnshop Owner - Apparently Ben Geitner was present –
certainly he had a bit of flaked gold like the over $15000 worth found in the
pawnshop…
5
year old Luigi Mazeppi lost in the Produce District .
Mar. 13 – Monday. It turns out that Benjamin
Geitner got picked up in a dazed condition and taken to SF General, where Dr. Xander discovered another
of those weird little leather “fetish” thingies sewn to his arm.
On returning
to the Lowie, the investigators find that Professor Kroeber has become
romantically involved with a strange blonde woman named Leda Zenika… He is
listening to old Ishi recordings and they hear one from 1915 which in addition
to containing a reference to Tsonoqua, seems to them to contain the notes of
the weird song which they have been hearing of. On re-play of the recording
does not contain that song at all.
Kroeber
provides various information on Tsonoqua, the American Indian legend of the cannibal-woman
who preys on children. It also seems that, while Tsonoqua is depicted as a blonde
woman, most of the time, she may also appear as male…
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