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Here you might run into stuff that smashes your worldview, or things that make your stomach turn. Battlefield hauntings, movie-grade monsters, novel-style wild adventures, mythical beasts, unsolved cases that twist your brain...
Don't like it? Skip.
Don't buy it? Treat it like fiction.
I'm not here to fight in the comments, so I won't answer a single question about what's real.
Bottom line: believe what you want, I'll write what I write.
If you ask whether it's true, I'll say yes-
and then shut my mouth.
After that disclaimer, let me restate my job: I'm a reporter-
but not the kind you see on XXX Daily or on TV.
Like the title says, I'm an "internal reporter", or call it a "non-traditional" one.
Cut the fancy words: it means I'm the guy on the ground when weird shit happens.
I interview, I tail, I get my hands dirty, then stitch the mess into readable reports.
Those get filed straight into "internal reference"-a classified digest for people who're supposed to see it.
Public newspapers? Not my lane.
If you're not cleared, stay out-
or at least don't blame me if you wake up at three a.m. staring at the ceiling.
Every department, every field-as long as it's got an official stamp-has its own internal digest. The CCDI runs one on corruption, Public Security has one for major crimes, and the military, being the top violence arm of the state, churns out so many varieties they're basically a galaxy. Even the "Nutrition Section"-yep, that's what they literally call the unit cooking for party and state leaders-puts out its own reference, debating the cutting edge of global diet science.
Take me, an armchair military buff. Military journals? There's "Firepower & Command Control", "Army Equipment", "Gear", "Projectile Dynamics"-all classified internal rags. You might spot their names online, but good luck buying or subscribing. In the barracks, once they expire, they get shredded together-no leaks, no drama.