Entities_038–6E
Nickname: The Shale G4od
Danger Ranking: 6.E
First Reported: 1952-03-14 — Offshore seismic station, Pacific Northwest Trench

Summary:
Entities 038, designated The Shale G1od, is a subterranean, incomprehensibly massive entity embedded deep beneath the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It has never been directly observed in its entirety. All data comes from seismic disturbances, impossibly deep sonar echoes, corrupted dream-reports, and “shale intrusions” — moments when immense quantities of pressurized sedimentary stone erupt into impossible geometric forms across fault zones. The entity is assumed to be dormant… but this assumption is increasingly in doubt.

It is not an organism in the traditional sense. Rather, it behaves as an ancient will embedded in shifting layers of the Earth’s crust — slow-thinking, but aware. Those attuned to it describe a yawning pressure in their skulls, dreams of a cathedral made of bone and shale, and the sound of an ocean roaring beneath their skin.

It is not below us. It is below us.

Known Properties:

• The entity’s full dimensions are unknown but presumed continental in scale.
  
• Sonar anomalies and deep-bore readings indicate vast, breathing cavern networks filled with a fluid not found anywhere else on Earth.
  
• Psychological effects include intrusive thoughts, suicidal ideation, and visions of pre-human civilizations worshiping layered, spiral structures made of shale and teeth.
  
• Direct contact (even indirect geological exposure) can result in spontaneous “tectonic hemorrhages” — where reality itself buckles, and massive slabs of ancient rock emerge in impossible, non-Euclidean orientations.
  
• Infrasound pulses detected irregularly since 1989 mimic human speech patterns, though at frequencies lethal to mammals. Recovered samples translate roughly as “We are not gone. We are layered. You are within.”
  
• Individuals exposed to proximity dreams experience cranial pressure, hearing loss, and eventually disappear, with bones found later encased in seamless shale near fault lines.
  
• All recovered shale fragments from eruptions bear microscopic script in looping, interwoven glyphs that have defied translation but appear deliberate.
  

Containment Procedure:

• All seismic anomalies within the Cascadia Trench are to be reviewed for pattern resonance with Entity 038’s known pulses.
  
• Deep drilling initiatives within identified hot zones have been indefinitely suspended.
  
• Public earthquakes must be covered with standard geological explanations; no mention of geometric stone blooms or "humming rock" is to be allowed in press releases.
  
• Proximity dreamers must be sedated and quarantined within magnetically shielded rooms. Under no circumstances are they to be allowed to sleep near soil.
  
• Destroy any symbols resembling the trilateral spiral within a 3-mile radius of shale intrusion sites.
  

Encounters:

• 1952-03-14 — Pacific Seismic Station Theta-7: Deep sonar returned a ping from below the crust that repeated three times. The final echo caused a collapse of the listening array.
  
• 1971-06-30 — Drowned Sink Complex, Oregon: Entire mining crew vanished; only a vertical tunnel of tightly coiled shale remained, perfectly smooth, extending down beyond measurable depth.
  
• 1990-10-05 — Northern Cascadia Faultline: Minor quake accompanied by a burst of infrasound. Five residents in separate towns carved matching spiral glyphs into their homes before vanishing.
  

Recommendation:
Do not disturb the stone. Do not speak its name beneath the earth. Do not dig. This entity is not contained. It is dormant. Every action near the deep crust is a question: Are you awake?

We may not want the answer.

List of Case Workers:

• Dr. Jonah Cass (Status: Active — Geoacoustic Research Lead)
  
• Lena Durand (Status: Active — Psychological Containment Specialist)
  
• Dr. Issam Redford (Status: Deceased — 1985, collapsed during dream study; cause: cranial fracture from within)
  
• Agent Clara Wu
  
• Dr. K. Mallory (Status: Missing — 1990-10-06, presumed absorbed)