It is a little after one in the morning, and I am standing in a parking garage in Las Vegas, waiting for a man I have never met who told me to come alone and bring cash. I am fifty-four years old and I know better.
Before this, I sat down with a retired concrete man I will call Royce. In the spring of 1992 he poured floors under the Saqqara, at night, for double pay and a signed promise of silence. He does not know what the walls were for. He knows what he poured, and that a second floor went over it a month later.
Then there is Vesper, who gives a walking tour with no license and no website and has a hundred stories about that building. Most of them are folklore. Two details do not sit right with me.
I am trying to stay a careful man. This recording is me sorting what I can check from what I cannot. By the end of the night I had a new place on the map, and it was not in Nevada. Listen when you have time, and tell me if you hear what I heard.
Recorded June 8th, 2019.
THE TRILOGY
The Pattern Files is the evidence file. The story is Don't Think Me Evil, a trilogy by Elwood West. Book One, Confession, is available now at dontthinkmeevil.com.