Entities_013–5C
Nickname: The Wishing Box
Danger Ranking: 5.C
First Reported: 1982–03–09 — Seattle, WA (private estate, Queen Anne Hill)

Summary:
The Wishing Box appears as an ornately carved wooden container, roughly the size of a breadbox, with no visible hinges or seams. It is covered in symbols of mixed origin—some pre-Columbian, others reminiscent of early Mesopotamian script—and its internal dimensions do not conform to its outer measurements. It was discovered among the belongings of a deceased antiquities dealer, sealed inside a lead-lined chest beneath the floorboards of his estate.

The entity activates upon spoken desire. Any individual who makes a wish in proximity to the box while touching it experiences a rapid manifestation of their request—frequently through violent, surreal, or grotesque means. Wishes are not fulfilled directly by the box but instead cause reality to contort and provide the outcome via the path of least resistance. The more impossible or abstract the request, the more destructive the fulfillment.

The object resists destruction and relocation. Attempts to bury, drown, or isolate the box have all failed, with it reappearing within 72 hours in a location emotionally or personally significant to the original wisher. Multiple deaths and psychological breaks have resulted from failed containment efforts.

Known Properties:

• Responds only to voiced desires within 2 meters of its surface.
  
• Fulfills wishes with extreme, sometimes horrific, literalism.
  
• The “price” of a wish correlates with its complexity—larger requests result in unintended collateral damage.
  
• Causes increasing paranoia and obsession in those who have used it more than once.
  
• Cannot be destroyed by conventional means; fire, acid, and pressure have no lasting effect.
  
• Emits low-frequency hum during active periods (when wish is being "processed").
  
• Reappears in emotionally significant locations if separated from its user for long.
  

Containment Procedure:
The box is to be held in an isolated magnetic containment vault beneath Site-CASCADE-12. No verbal communication is permitted in the vault chamber, and entry requires muting devices and supervision.

Personnel assigned to The Wishing Box must undergo psychological screening for intrusive thoughts, grief trauma, or impulsivity.

In the event of containment breach or spontaneous relocation:

• Immediately cross-reference all current personnel with emotional ties to anomaly interaction.
  
• Deploy search protocols for known emotionally significant locations.
  
• Secure the box with lead shielding and noise-canceling restraints during transit.
  

No personnel are to make verbal contact while in physical proximity.

Encounters:

• 1982–03–09 — Seattle, WA: Initial discovery. Owner's remains found partially fused with the interior walls of his home. Audio logs from neighbors mention “screams and music at the same time.”
  
• 1984–07–18 — Portland, OR: Box reappears in apartment of former handler. Entire building partially collapsed. Only survivor claimed he “wished things were simpler.”
  
• 1990–11–26 — Thurston County, WA: Teenager disappears after wishing for a “different life.” The box was found in the center of a burned field, humming.
  

Recommendation:
No testing is authorized at this time. Requests for interaction or experimentation are permanently denied.

Do not speak near it. Do not think fondly of it. Do not wish.

List of Case Workers:

• Dr. Kendra Yual (Status: Transferred, 1989)
  
• Agent S. Mallin
  
• Archive Linguist Tycho Ramsay
  
• Handler “NOCTURNE-4” (Status: Deceased, 1986)
  
• Technician Olive Wren
  
• In Memoriam: Dr. A. Pembrose (Status: Lost during Phase-3 testing)