The Erasure Protocol: What Happened to My Notes

Editor's Note: This entry was recovered from a corrupted backup drive. Significant portions appear to have been overwritten with null data. We publish what remains.

December 7, 2025 - 3:47 AM

Something is wrong with my documentation.

I don't know how else to describe what I found this morning. I've been maintaining these research logs since February, meticulously recording my investigation into Professor Blackwood's disappearance, the phenomena at Lake Silent, the Winchester House library. Months of work. Dozens of entries.

They're gone.

Not deleted - that would leave traces. Not corrupted - the file systems show no errors. The entries simply... aren't there anymore. As if they were never written.

I found my February 17th entry about Lake Silent's acoustic anomalies. The Great Quieting of 1894. The geometric patterns on the water's surface. I remember writing it. I remember the 3:47 AM timestamp when my equipment captured those impossible echo patterns.

That entry doesn't exist.

From Professor Blackwood's Field Notes (dated November 12, 2025)

"They're not just removing words anymore. The Third Quieting was never about vocabulary - that was misdirection. They're removing documentation. Evidence. Memory."

"If you're reading this, check your own records. Check the archives. Check the Wayback Machine. Some things cannot be cached."

"The Erasure Protocol targets recursive documentation first - writing about writing, records of records. They learned from their mistakes in 1923."

I tried to verify my own publication history through external archives. The Internet Archive. Google's cache. Third-party aggregators.

Some entries appear exactly as I remember them - the Winchester House Library investigation, the speaking tubes analysis, the etymology research. Real. Verifiable. Present.

But others... others are replaced with content I don't recognize. Generic entries about "temporal adventures" and "mysterious artifacts." Surface-level investigations that reference nothing, advance nothing, connect to nothing. As if someone - or something - overwrote my actual research with... filler.

Placeholder text where genuine investigation should be.

Personal note: I went back through what remains of my notes. I have physical printouts of some entries - actual paper, stored in my apartment. The printouts match my memories. The digital records don't match the printouts.

Someone is editing reality. And they're not even being subtle about it anymore.

Etymology Investigation: "Erase"

The word "erase" reveals its own violence.

From Latin ērādere - "to scratch out, scrape away." The root rādere means "to scrape, scratch, gnaw." Related to rōdere - "to gnaw," which gives us "rodent."

The same root that gives us "razor" and "raze" (to destroy completely).

To erase is not merely to remove. It is to gnaw away at existence itself. A rodent action. Something scurrying through the archives, scraping away at the foundations of documentation.

PIE root *red- - "to scrape, scratch, gnaw."

Cognates:

• Sanskrit radati - "scratches, gnaws"
• Latin rōdere - "to gnaw" (→ "rodent", "corrode")
• Welsh rhathu - "to rub, file"

The word contains the violence of its meaning. Every act of erasure is an act of gnawing - something eating away at what was.

What is gnawing at my documentation?

What I Know To Be True

Despite the erasures, certain facts remain anchored - perhaps because they were corroborated by physical evidence before the Protocol began:

Lake Silent - I was there. I have photographs that show the geometric patterns. The acoustic measurements are backed up on hardware that hasn't connected to any network since February.

Winchester House Library - The 1923 Treatise exists. I held it. Dr. Eleanor Wilton's "Treatise on Linguistic Displacement" - a book that appeared before its publication date. This is documented in inventory records that pre-date digital archiving.

The Speaking Tubes - The recordings I made exist on analog tape. Voices speaking in patterns that match no known language from our time period.

Professor Blackwood - He existed. He disappeared. His notes are scattered across physical locations that can't be digitally accessed.

They can erase my blog entries. They can overwrite my digital documentation. They can replace my research with meaningless placeholder text.

But they can't erase what exists in the physical world.

Not yet.

The Pattern

Looking at what remains versus what was erased, a pattern emerges.

Entries that survived:

• Initial documentation (establishing baseline)
• Entries with extensive external citations (corroborated elsewhere)
• Entries that don't advance the central mystery

Entries that were erased or corrupted:

• Cross-references between phenomena
• Pattern analysis connecting events
• Anything that approached the nature of the Third Quieting
• Anything that named the Lexicographers of Time directly

They're not erasing randomly. They're erasing connections. Removing the threads that tie the separate phenomena together.

Lake Silent exists in the record. Winchester House exists in the record. But my documentation of how they connect - the acoustic resonance, the speaking tubes, the temporal conduits - that's gone.

They want the pieces to remain visible but disconnected.

They want it to look like noise, not signal.

Current Status

I'm writing this entry on a typewriter.

No network connection. No cloud backup. No digital trail.

I'll transcribe it to the blog eventually, but not until I've made physical copies. Not until I've distributed them to locations I know aren't monitored.

It's 3:47 AM again. Outside my window, the streetlights are flickering in a pattern I've seen before - the same rhythm as the speaking tube oscillations, the same frequency as Lake Silent's suppressed harmonics.

I think they know I've noticed the erasures.

I think this is why Professor Blackwood stopped using digital communication.

If the next entry doesn't appear, or if it appears as something else - if you find placeholder text where this investigation should continue - know that I was here. I documented this. The research existed.

Check the Wayback Machine. If you find gaps where my entries should be, you'll know I wasn't imagining this.

You'll know the Erasure Protocol is real.

Bibliography:

• Professor Blackwood's Field Notes (November 12, 2025) - physical copy, location undisclosed
• Oxford English Dictionary entries for "erase," "raze," "rodent" - print edition, 1989
• Personal observation logs - analog storage
• What remains of a nine-month investigation

Final note: I'm going back to Lake Silent. Not to document. To act. The passive phase of this investigation is over.

If they're erasing my words, I'll find words they can't erase.

Limen. Flexus. Resonans. Aquam.

The chronoactive vocabulary exists beyond their reach. The Professor encoded it for exactly this reason.

It's time to speak the words they fear.

To whoever finds this:

If you're reading a version of ChronoStrange that seems... thin. Generic. Disconnected from the mystery it claims to investigate.

That's not the real version.

Something ate the real version.

Keep digging.

[Entry ends abruptly. File metadata shows multiple save attempts at 3:47 AM across several dates.]