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We have a left Europe behind. Yesterday we arrived in Australia, the outback, home to

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Aboriginal Australians. Their culture is one of the longest surviving in all of history.

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And, more importantly for my purposes, one of the most accurate understandings of the

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paranormal world. Let me explain some of their beliefs. The Dream Time or The Dreaming. This

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is the core of Aboriginal culture. It is their way of understanding their place in the universe.

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Now, The Dreaming is a European term. Other words could have been used such as eternal

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or everyone. The Rural Piri people use the word Jirkarpa to describe it. I will be using

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the term The Dreaming. A simple term for an eternally complex system. Now, it is important

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to note that The Dreaming does not relate to actual dreaming. It simply draws on the

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idea of a reality beyond our own. One we can only catch glimpses of as we live. Only when

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one passes on can they truly enter an eternal dream. A world unexplored by any living soul.

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After a 24 hour flight, we landed in Melbourne. I have come to really like this city. It is

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very green. The buildings are vast and numerous, yet it does not choke out the sky. Truly one

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of the most beautiful places I have ever visited. I wish Filibert could have seen this, but

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he is at rest, which is good for him. Besides, having a friend on a mission like this could

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slow me down. It is for the best. Supplementary Log 6. The Broach. The third Saint's Broach.

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I know what it is. Or at least I think I do. It is so simple, it was right in front of

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me. I can feel the energy radiating from it. Even now as we head towards the Bone Church,

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the speaker has it with him. Inside his pocket along with the recorder and well, me I guess.

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I feel like a Tamagotchi. Anyway, the Broach. It is a cursed object. Let me explain. When

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someone dies, they have a chance of becoming one of four types of ghosts as outlined by

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the speaker. Most pass on. Those who aren't ready become phantoms. Those with unfinished

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business become spirits. Most haunts are people that died violently and well, I don't know

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what makes an anomaly, sorry. Cursed objects are tied to spirits. The soul with unfinished

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business becomes attached to something on the material plane. Most times it is their

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own body, but other times it is an object of significance to that unfinished business.

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A lot of these objects can have special properties, aside from having some spirit tied to them.

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The special properties of the Broach? No clue. I'll try and find out more. End of supplementary

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log six.

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Stupid thing. Oh, there we go. Okay. The recorder shut off there. I'll have to repeat what I

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was saying. Alright. I was talking about the next steps. I have the Broach and it's infused

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with Filibert's energy. That doesn't do much other than make it easier to work with. What

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I need now is to get some water. Simple, right? Right. I need to find the Ginolan Caves. There

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are other caves I could visit, other places I could use, but these are some of the nearest

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and some of the oldest. Now, the dreaming is not confined to a simple singular point

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of being. Rather, it is a way of seeing the universe as it is. A holistic, all-encompassing

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point of view that ties together the past, present, and future into one continuous existence.

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Rather than living within this universe, we are the living universe. A part of it. And

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we always will be. Rather beautiful, isn't it? A good way of thinking when living as

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a part of a universe with so many unseen corners, creatures, and beings.

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It's November 3rd, a Sunday. Since both today and tomorrow are free days, I can make a trip

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to the caves and be back before our new tour director notices I'm gone. Oh, that's another

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thing. The old tour director stayed behind in Europe. We have a new one for Australia

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and we'll get one more for Thailand. Hopefully they're both a bit less strict with the buddy

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system. The people here are not exactly equipped to handle the paranormal. Well, I have a long

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trip ahead of me. I'll record if something interesting happens, but that's unlikely.

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And nine hours and three different hitchhikes later, I was right. Very dull. The people

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were nice enough. Actually, very friendly. Which is... I don't know why I'm bringing

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that up. That's not relevant. The sun is setting, which is better. The Janolan Caves are closed

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due to flooding this past April, but I can't take any chances. There could be park rangers

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or restoration crews. Night is my best option. I have a bigger problem now. There wasn't

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anyone outside. Or I should say, there wasn't anyone left. I found bodies. Fresh bodies.

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Three of them. I think. Hard to tell the way they were everywhere. I only stuck around

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a little bit before heading deeper into the caves. It looked like an animal attack. That's

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what I hope it was. From the two large puncture wounds I saw on one of the torsos, I can safely

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say it was a physical creature, which leaves out most spirits, phantoms, or anomalies.

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It's probably a terrible animal attack. Maybe one of the crew left food out and something

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caught the scent. We are in Australia, after all. Who knows what could have wandered up

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here? I don't want to be found anywhere near this mess by morning, so I should hurry. Maybe

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I should have brought someone. At least I have an extra pair of eyes. No, no, no. This

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would have been too much. It's better this way. The old tales of the Denolan Caves are

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that the river sticks, from Greek mythology, flowed directly from the underworld to this

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very cave. One of the underground pools here is named the Pool of Cerberus. Even to this

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day... Oh, I know what's out there. That is the deep, booming cry of a bunyip. It's caught

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my scent. That sound is a territorial claim. It's telling any other creature out there

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to back off. It sounds far enough away. I can finish this before it catches up. In the

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meantime, I can explain a bit about bunyips. In the world of the paranormal, there are

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physical creatures. These include chupacabra, skinwalkers, wendigo, vampires, stuff like

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that. Sometimes their origins are traceable and identifiable, like vampires and wendigo.

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Sometimes no one knows the origin. Such is true here. Bunyips are native to Australia.

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They come from Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, specifically that of the Wemba Wemba people.

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One notable account comes from William Buckley, who escaped from a penal colony in Melbourne

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and lived with the native people. He described the creature as amphibious. He claimed to

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have witnessed it eating a woman from his adopted village. The bunyip is said to be

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nocturnal, only come out at night to devour what is closest to its home. Its home, which

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is usually rivers, lakes, and marshes. That makes sense here. There's a lake right outside

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these caves. Who knows how long it's been here, stealing people away. As for its physical

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form, some tales describe it like a giant seal with large tusks, while others describe

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a large swimming tiger with the shell of a starfish. While its physical form is ambiguous,

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there are three traits that stay consistent throughout time. Firstly, the call of the

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bunyip is a deep reverberating roar, like that of some mix between a crocodile and an

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owl. Secondly, the smell. It is said to smell like old mud and rotting corpses, a telltale

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sign that the creature is nearby. And thirdly, the fear. In all time, all stories, all cultures,

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fear is constant. This creature is one of the most feared in all of Aboriginal tales.

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And on that note, I've found the Pool of Cerberus, thankfully. Alright, this ritual will not

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take long. I'm setting the recorder down by the edge of the pool. It may be enchanted

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with filibrate's residual energy, but it is still only water resistant. Okay. Okay. Some

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might say I'm lucky, the way this ritual turned out. That would be incorrect. Luck is a construct

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for those who cannot plan. I can. It had to be here. It had to be now. The moon, even

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though I cannot see it from this deep underground, is a waning gibbous. In Wiccan practices,

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this phase of the moon is best when casting spells of reversing magic. That is my goal

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tonight. And this broach is my key. Okay, alright, I can do this. I just have to tread

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water for a little. It's dark. I brought a small lantern, but it's near the recorder.

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I don't like this feeling, treading water. I can't touch anything below me, but I feel

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that something might be down there. It's an ancient type of fear, the darkness of the

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water. I can barely see movement below the surface. It might be reflections. It might

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not be. I'm just on edge from the nearby, and it's freezing. I need to finish this

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and get out. Hear me, the forgotten spirit of the third patron saint. I call you forth

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to this pool of the dead. I call you forth from this prison and cast you out. Leave your

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past behind. I accept the burden unto my mind, by my will and by my right. So moat it be

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tonight. Heedless your free will, and at harm none, do what you will. There. Done. It worked.

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I should have brought a change of clothes. There's... Oh. Oh no. It's here. The bunyap

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is in the pool with me. I can smell the horrid stench of mud and decay. It won't know I'm

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here. It can't. The ritual worked. I am no longer perceptible to the world. This creature

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is dangerous. It needs to be stopped. Supplementary log nine. I think I know what the speaker

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did to the vampire last night. Whatever connection he has with the paranormal world, it's a strong

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one. I think he can manipulate aspects of it, or at the very least knows enough about

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it all to find different rituals or spells that can do that. I think the broach is a

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source of some of that power. Since the soul trapped within was... forgotten, I think that

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the speaker can cast out that essence or something. It would take a lot of effort, but in theory

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he could forcefully remove something from the material world, make physics forget about

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that thing. I think that's what he did to the vampire. End of supplementary log number

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nine. Okay. I did it. The ritual's done. The bunyap is not a problem anymore. And I just

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have to... get back home. Or... you know, to the hotel. If I can catch a ride soon, I

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should be able to make it back by afternoon tomorrow. And hopefully no one has noticed

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my absence. They won't have. Especially not now. And finally, finally, I'm close to finishing

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this. Oh, oh, there's a car coming.