The Truth Of Chernobyl

Note: Some use of strong language.

Shortly after the disaster in Chernobyl, a group of American rescuers (Alex, Michael, Emily, and Mark), *only first names were recorded* ventured into Chernobyl to find survivors. A journal from one of the rescuers, Mark, was found at the site two weeks later in a pile of rubble by Russian government officials. The journal remained hidden for 17 years before its information was leaked out to the public on a website called ispythetruth.com by a former government worker. Within twenty minutes, the website was taken down and the former government worker was sent to life in prison. However within those twenty minutes a handful of users had saved the documents. These are the entries of that journal:

May 1, 1986

Tomorrow I’m heading out to Chernobyl with another few people to check out the damage and hopefully find survivors if there are any. This is pretty exciting since I usually don’t get to do that much normally. So until tomorrow it’s time for some sleep.

May 2, 1986

Well its 8:00 am, and most of my crew is already here at the helicopter that will take us to Chernobyl. Its 8:10 and now all of my crew is here and we are in the air. In 4 hours we will be inside Chernobyl and ready to investigate. I’m already nervous since I did hear that the radiation levels in the area are pretty bad but we’ll be wearing radiation suits so whatever.

May 2, 1986

Well its 12:37 right now and we have landed. We did experience some turbulence 20 minutes ago which caused us to arrive late. I’m not exactly sure in what specific area we are in but I could plainly see that it was hit hard by the blast. There are crumbling buildings everywhere. Visibility isn’t all that great either. Probably from all that dust and rubble spewed up into the air. Well anyway, I guess it’s time to go search.

May 2, 1986

Well after a full day of searching we could not find any survivors. All we could find was mountains of rubble and abandoned possessions. What was really creepy was that there were children’s toys everywhere I looked but no children. We could not find any bodies. Not even one. It’s almost like everyone in here just vanished. Well I guess we can search more tomorrow but I doubt that we will find anything but who knows we haven’t even looked through the whole area yet.

May 3, 1986

Yesterday at around midnight, I woke up to the sound of chewing. It was strange because everyone was sleeping. The chewing sounded very fast and loud. The sound was coming from right outside our camp spot. This made me feel good that we were issued weapons. Even though we weren’t given a reason I now see why. Wild animals. When I went outside, the sound stopped but I had a strange feeling I was being watched. So I looked around for five minutes trying to find what was making the noise. When I couldn’t find anything I came back inside. That’s when the chewing started again.

May 3, 1986

After an entire morning of searching we still could not find anything. We had searched the entire area. There was not a single soul to be found. We had decided it was time to leave. So now I have to pack up all the things we had set up while my team searches around a bit more before we leave.

May 3, 1986

At around 2:00 pm, I was done packing and we were getting ready to leave when I noticed that one of our teammates (Alex) had not come back yet. Now we had to post-pone our departure and look for him. The search just keeps getting better and better! It’s currently 7:00 pm and we still can’t find him. I’m trying to use the helicopter radio to call for help but I’m not getting any answer back.