Challenge #01448-C353: Long-term Effects of Stupid Decisions
“In a fit of rage, he got extremely scientific.”
Tour guide at the Oregon Vortex, possibly describing Stanford Pines. – @recklessprudence
“He employed every sensing device available, in the place where horses refused to go,” said the guide. “And more than a few that he invented himself. Results were confounding, to say the least. Keep in mind that this occurred in the early twenty-first century, well before post-Shattering complete scanners. He had to collate and calculate his data on his own.”
The effort, according to the guide, took months. During which, the investigator took more readings to feed into analytical programs of his own design.
After two years of solid work on this anomaly, he was left almost exactly where he started. All he had was a pile of data and no idea what it meant. It went entirely against everything he knew… and this was a man who studied outlier phenomenon.