The Boy Who Asked to Sleep, Then Vanished

The Boy Who Asked to Sleep, Then Vanished

A child screamed with a voice his mother didn't recognize, then asked to go back to sleep and disappeared from a locked room. What happened in the sixty seconds Julia Hall was gone, and why does a Latin word for "dream" connect to a pattern of vanishings in Westville?

In this episode, we explore the chilling case of Brandon Hall, a boy who vanished from his bedroom, and the unsettling pattern of disappearances in the small community of Westville. We delve into the documents and audio files received by Dixon, revealing a hidden truth about children who go to sleep and never wake up.

Person: Brandon Hall
Location: Westville
Status: Disappeared
Investigator: Jason
Document: Somnium

- Brandon Hall vanished from a sealed second-floor room with a latched window and the only door to the hallway.
- Julia Hall, Brandon's mother, was gone for less than sixty seconds to call an ambulance when he disappeared.
- At least twenty children in Westville have gone through the same sequence of screaming, asking to sleep, and then vanishing.
- Jason, an investigator, meticulously documented five cases by hand, believing sleep was the mechanism for the disappearances.
- Jason himself disappeared two weeks after recording an interview, following a pattern of those who investigate the "somnium" cases.

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