Case #0190831
Statement of Mallory Cecil, regarding… a vase in their home. Original statement given August 31st, 2019.
Um. Okay.
There’s a vase in my parents’ attic. Or. Maybe I should give some context, first? Okay. Hold on.
My grandpa, Nikolaus Cecil, studies the supernatural. Or. Studied, until he, um, died, but! He taught my mama and her friend Amelia a lot, and they helped him research… whatever he researched. I’ve read some of his notes and stuff and it was all kinda confusing to me? I mean, I’m interested in it all, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just. There’s so much content, and I’m… not really much of a hands-off learner, hehe.
But the whole thing is, my family is really interested in the supernatural! We collect haunted stuff, or, supposed haunted stuff, and my mama’s a witch, and - I mean, I didn’t learn the practice, but I’m still carrying on the family tradition of… interest in this stuff!
But yeah. We have all these supernatural artifacts, and the most… impressive? Real? I don’t know, maybe even um, the most dangerous one, it’s the vase.
It just kinda sits in the attic most of the time, but my mama checks on it every day. Something about making sure it doesn’t break? It’s real important that the vase doesn’t break or get damaged or lost, and we aren’t allowed to touch it.
… Obviously I’ve broken that rule. It’s just a vase, really.
My mama watches it, just like her father before her and his father before him and… so on and so forth. Family heirloom of the supernatural sort!
It’s… creepy. I don’t like it. Sometimes, I can hear whispers coming from the attic. No real words, I think, at least nothing in English, just… soft, nearly inaudible whispers. The voices are deep, and… they feel mocking, almost. I’m sure it’s the vase. I don’t know what else it could be.
I suggested handing it over to your Institute, but. Mama said we can’t get rid of it, so that’s not an option.
It… weirds me out. I don’t like having it in the house. I always get such a bad headache if I’m holding it, and it’s always so… everything about it is just wrong. I get this weird… being watched feeling, and it - I never really feel. Right when I’m holding it, like my skin doesn’t fit right. I always feel like I’m close to… melting or falling apart or something when I hold it. It’s not a good feeling.
It’s just dark inside it, too. It’s not empty, there’s something in there, but it’s just black. I’ve never tried sticking my hand in. I don’t think I want to.
It’s real creepy.
… I feel like it moves on it’s own, too.
Maybe I can show it to you guys sometime.
FOLLOW-UP NOTES
According to Institute records, Mx. Cecil made a follow-up statement roughly a month later, and then another statement after that, but we’ve yet to find any of them.
While I can’t say for certain that it’s real, there have been plenty of haunted artifacts in the past, and considering half of the stuff in Artifact Storage, I’m sure a whispering vase is pretty par for the course.