Welcome to the Aurora Archives.
ARCHIVE STATUS: DECLASSIFIED // OPEN
SUBJECT: The Aurora Archives (2025)
Welcome to the repository. What follows is not a standard collection of holiday fiction; it is a dossier of anomalies. For centuries, children across the globe have reported “Winter Miracles”, impossible feats of gravity defiance, localized miracles, and sightings of ‘soft, twitchy’ entities where there should be none.
We have begun compiling these letters, chronologically and geographically, to prove a theory: we are not alone in the dark. Below you will find the daily recovered transcripts. Some are heartwarming, some are harrowing, but all of them share the same impossible fingerprint.
The log below will be updated every 24 hours as new signal packets are decrypted.
Introduction and Day 1
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archives | Day 1
Earlier this week I put the call out for submissions towards this: A Christmas Advent Flash Fiction Fantastical Frenzy. (Is it easy to tell I am excited for December?)
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archive | Day 2
Walt Shuler - Winter 1855 - The Rogue River Valley in Oregon. A Tolowa girl, 8, is frightened and alone during the Rogue River Wars, between Native Americans and white settlers.
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archive | Day 3
Gregory Blair - Neuschwanstein Castle -1886 - The heartbroken man tasked with locking up the unfinished castle upon the death of King Ludwig II, makes his final walkthrough of the massive creation, including the empty throne room that never got its throne.
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archive | Day 4
Maryellen Brady 💗📚 - 1922 Baltimore City, Maryland - A lost child was out sliding and snow fell so fast and furious, one minute play & the next fearful & freezing. Near Lock Raven.
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archive | Day 5
Jenifer Jorgenson - 1983 - Centralia, Pennsylvania, (now a mostly abandoned mining town with fires burning underground) - Danny, age 10
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archive | Day 6
Sarah - 2018 - New Year’s Eve - Edinburgh. A family (mum and 2 daughters, 58, 30, 28) experiencing their first family holiday since the death of the dad/husband earlier in the year.
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archive | Day 7
Thomas An astonished young broker seeing the euphoria happening across the Atlantic on wall street plans to cross the ocean to New York for the opportunity, only to get on the ship and learn of the great crash of 1907 while on his way.
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archive | Day 8
Lou - It’s 10,802BC, At the Southern edge of the Scandinavian ice sheet, A young man named Bamam is deciding what to do next.
The Strings Of Us | The Aurora Archive | Day 9
Brenda - A Voice that Wonders - 1652, Cape Town South Africa, Thandi - a child looking through the bushes, watching the arrival of the first settlers.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 10
Jonathan Hogue - 1993 - Somewhere between Pittsburgh, PA and State College, PA. Two 19 year-olds, driving back to college in a 1984 Ford Mustang GT through the “Storm of the Century.” (This one might be too difficult for you!!!)
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 11
Tamsyn Russell - 1668, rural Buckinghamshire. A boy called Nathaniel, who’s seven, and his pony Brave, on the edge of the Chiltern hills.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 12
Shadows of an Afterthought - 16th Century -Spanish Arch, Galway, Ireland. Gráinne waits patiently in the shadows of Spanish Arch, to catch a glimpse of a Alonso, a Spanish boy who trades goods everytime his ship docks.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 13
Verdant Butterfly - 1523 - Màiri MacAonghais, age ten, met the winter fair folk spirit Fàlros the Sneachdraith on the 14th December in the Highland glen of Braonach.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 14
Norm DePlume - December 1819 - A broken down, abandoned barn in Geneva Switzerland. Adam, age 1, who wants a mother and father for Christmas but is afraid no one wants him. Adam is the name used by the creature that was created by Victor Frankenstein in 1818.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 16
A.M. Bowman - Gilgamesh - Babylonia, sometime around 2100-1200bc.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 17
Sarah - Herculaneum - early 79AD - Cassius, a 14 year old boy, son of a tavern owner, who dreams of one day setting sail on the open seas.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 18
Sasha Hitchcock - Pompeii - Just before the explosion, a female mystic of the cult depicted here - Secrets of female cult devoted to god of ecstasy unearthed at Pompeii.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 20
Dad - 12BC - UK - sighting Halleys comet - A local villager.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 21
Graeme Brandham - Tang Dynasty, China - Lin, an apothecary owner, living in a river village.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 23
Graeme Brandham - 2008AD - A London Department Store Santa’s Grotto - David the Santa and Tin’tan the Rabbit Helper.
The Strings Of Us | Aurora Archive | Day 24
Graeme Brandham - 1928 AD - The Peruvian Andes - Ken’tillin an Andean Rabbit
SIGNAL PROJECTION: INCREASING
The similarities that exist between all these disparate events, from the gold mines of 1700 Brazil to [Stay tuned to find out], are converging on a single point of understanding. The human myths surrounding the traditions of Christmas are not the whole story.
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The Aurora Archives: A Call for Historical Witnesses
Help me uncover the secret history of the ‘Winter Guardians’ for a 25-Day Advent Challenge.
Happy Christmas my friends. 🎄🎄🎄