#sthqs:plotdrop

[hawkinsdaily-blog]

HAWKINS DAILY

                                                                                November 1, 1994

With the wrap-up of Hawkins’ annual Halloween fair came a sense of returning normalcy to everyone in town. People are slowly but surely moving back into the swing of things after the disappearance of local freshman Matthew Helms. Helms disappeared without a trace on October 28 after leaving a friend’s house around 8:30 at night. The boy was last seen riding his bike down Maple Street by a neighbor. After that, no one knows where he went. And no one has a clue. Or at least that’s what they thought. Sources say a local teenager found a hat belonging to Matthew Helms in the woods just outside the fairgrounds. The Hawkins Police Department have reportedly sent a DNA sample found on the hat to the lab for testing to see if they can find a lead on where Helms could have gone, or with whom. Any information on Matthew Helms or his whereabouts should be immediately reported to Hawkins PD.

           THROUGH A RESIDENT’S EYES

“If I see any of those West kids sneaking through my backyard again I think I may just shoot one of them. My property is just that - mine - and I’m sick and tired of white trash kids trampling my garden. This is a warning to the Wests - stay in your own yard!”

“Anyone who thinks the missing kid’s disappearance was anything short of a family affair is plain stupid. No one could ever manage to get rid of a kid as easily as their family. If Hawkins PD isn’t investigating the Helms family they’re making a big mistake.”

“I would pay actual money for Carter Castillo to shut up.”

“I wish more people cared about what was going on up at the Hawkins National Laboratory. They locked up the gates on the 29th and I haven’t seen anyone come in or out since then. And the smoke coming out of the chimney smells like death. They have to be doing something toxic in there and it can’t be safe for Hawkins.”

“Do we really trust the Stewart family to be the ones at the head of our town? They look like they’re barely keeping their [redacted] together in public, who knows that the [redacted] is going on behind closed doors?”

“You’d think the Chevalier girl is some kind of royalty because of all the security she gets. Jesus.”

[hawkinsdaily-blog]

                  STRANGERTHINGSHQ’s PRESENTS:

                                     A LIGHTS OUT PLOT DROP.

DISCLAIMER: The storm still in full, only worsening, very few things in function aside from a single local radio station, something that most townsfolk have access to in one way or another ( whether it be at home, or at a diner, place of work, etc. 

BREAKING NEWS: BELOVED OFFICER FOUND DEAD. 

       It was at the brink of dawn, the HIGH PITCHED screeching from my old school radio startled me out of a near slumber. I was out cold, there was little to be reported. But that’s when I first heard the static, suddenly very alert, sirens blaring through the town. Was this it? Had they found Matthew Helms? Or was I in a deep slumber, having a nightmare? Questions stirred in my mind, that was of course until I heard a familiar officer on the line. There was talk of a body, a DEAD body. One found by two students, names hazy as I struggled to make them out over the poor signal, though I didn’t think much of it, I was more curious about the body, and suddenly my fingers were moving rapidly against the keyboard of my typewriter.       A series of police codes called out, some I recognized, others I didn’t care much for but then one that she definitely did recognize was repeated quite frequently, and it wasn’t until the fifth time, that she worked out what it was. TEN DOUBLE-ZERO, “ officer down ,” had she heard that right? But with the amount of times they were listed, she had to have. An officer down, in Hawkins. MURDERED. Not caring about the time, I quickly gathered my coat, a notepad and jotted down the address and followed the lead to the crime scene, this was an article in need of reporting. This was something worth freezing my fingers off for. 

    Later in the day, it was revealed by the officers that the slain police officer, though made to look accidental was someone that had heavily investigated not only Matthew’s disappearance but the mysteriously laboratory on the outskirts of town. Most of his coworkers shrugging off his remarks, believing his claims to be ridiculous and even impossible. Sure, the place was always viewed as a creepy setting, somewhere joked about, but never did they believe any of the tales, the myths but now just months after the fifteen year old’s disappearance he’s found in the forest DEAD. 

REST IN PEACE OFFICER VARGO, YOU WILL BE GREATLY MISSED

OUR DEEPEST AND SINCEREST CONDOLENCES ARE WITH FAMILY & FRIENDS AT THIS TIME. 

Sincerely, 

THE EDITORS OF HAWKIN’S DAILY.