The U.S. Bureau of Paranormal Investigation is not a new agency.
As early as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century, this department was secretly established, and it was a relatively important department at the time.
Of course, this department is not as mysterious as everyone thinks, and the people in the department do not have superpowers.
In fact, this department is mainly responsible for communicating with various psychics and magicians in the United States.
During the Cold War, in order to confront each other, the two major powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, used all kinds of extraneous tactics, including supernatural abilities, which until now are not completely certain to exist.
Therefore, both the Soviet Union and the United States established relevant institutions at that time, hoping to have a certain effect in the Cold War.
It's just that the Soviet Union focused on a series of black technologies such as mind control. Later, the game Red Alert specifically added the character Yuri to the Soviet Union who could control other people's minds.
The United States hired a large number of psychics to predict the location of Soviet nuclear submarines.
Of course, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union has made great progress in using supernatural abilities. After the end of the Cold War, in order to save some money, the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation was abolished in name only.
However, this department, which was supposed to have its name written off in a few more years, has seen a turnaround this year.
The emergence of the guardians of civilization and giant monsters has once again sparked a craze in the study of supernatural abilities around the world.
In order not to fall behind the world, the Paranormal Investigation Bureau was urgently expanded and established. A large number of talents of all kinds began to join the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, and many agents who originally belonged to the FBI and CIA were also transferred to the Paranormal Investigation. Bureau, asking them to search for any news about supernatural abilities at home and abroad.
"Another day of doing nothing." Delman, the director of the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, sat in his seat with a cup of coffee, looking at all kinds of messy news collected from all over the world, thinking while drinking coffee.
Although the guardians of civilization and giant monsters have been proven to exist.
But these supernatural things have never been discovered on a large scale in the past thousands of years, which proves that they must have a way to hide themselves.
Therefore, even if funds are unprecedentedly sufficient, Delman will not be able to make much progress for a while.
Half of the messages sent by the agents to the headquarters were based on vague descriptions and simple historical legends, and they were intended to defraud funds. The other half, although they discovered something magical, used the same ability. Science can also achieve it, and it is impossible to tell whether it is true or not.
As a veteran, Delman would naturally not point out that the agents below were a waste of time. After all, this would have an impact on the department's funds.
So he basically just casually browsed through these materials, and then found a few reliable ones for his secretary to seal, while the others were directly disposed of as garbage.
But at this time, he saw a message from an agent from Springfield, the capital of Illinois.
The granite at Oak Ridge Cemetery was shattered from the inside out.
Delman clicked on the picture in the report, and then discovered that the originally solid granite had a large hole ripped out from the middle.
Judging from the cracks around the big hole, the opponent should have used extremely strong force to hit the granite from the inside out, causing the granite to shatter.
Oak Grove was completed in 1874 and was designed by Larkin, a famous designer at that time.
The surrounding area of this cemetery is mainly used to bury local residents, and under the granite in the middle part, Abraham Lincoln, the famous president in American history, is buried.
This thing does seem a bit strange.
Delman looked at the photos in the report and couldn't figure out who in this era would have nothing to do to destroy Lincoln's cemetery.
While Lincoln was president, the famous Civil War occurred in American history. However, people in the northern states regarded Lincoln as the hero who led them to win the war. Although people in the southern states hated Lincoln a little at the time, from today's perspective, Lincoln is also qualified to be respected by the people of the southern states.
In addition to abolishing slavery, Lincoln also made many efforts after winning the war to try to protect the rights of the southern states to prevent the South from excessive losses, including returning the confiscated property of the South except black slaves and paying A sum of money to the southern states to prevent them from going bankrupt.
As a result, Lincoln's proposal was unanimously opposed by cabinet members.
Then, just when Lincoln continued to insist on treating the South gently and providing sufficient support to the South that was on the verge of bankruptcy, he was assassinated and died in office.
Naturally, the people who succeeded Lincoln would not treat southerners as gently as Lincoln. Therefore, this caused a 180-degree turn in the attitude of people in the southern states towards Lincoln.
Comparing people to each other makes people angry.
Although Lincoln led the war, he only wanted to abolish slaves, unlike others who directly wanted their lives.
Therefore, neither southerners nor northerners, whites or blacks, are suspected of destroying Lincoln Cemetery, not then, and certainly not now.
After a brief thought, Delman decided that there might be something wrong with this incident, so he immediately waved to his secretary and asked the secretary to contact the agent who sent the report, and he wanted to contact him.
Soon, the call came through. The agent was obviously waiting for Delman to call. It seemed that he was very confident in his discovery. This was probably a supernatural incident!
"If I remember correctly, Lincoln Cemetery is open from eight in the morning to late at night. So even if the camera did not record who broke the granite above the cemetery, there must have been witnesses who witnessed the process. "Delman said to this special company, "It has been several hours since you sent the report. Is there any new progress?"
"Indeed." The agent didn't know why, but his voice was very low, as if he felt guilty.
"To be specific, the calls between us are absolutely safe."
"The cameras in the cemetery were placed at the entrance and exit, so they did not capture images of the granite being broken. But within a few minutes after President Lincoln's cemetery was shattered, a man wearing tattered clothes emerged from The cemetery came out, and, and.”
The agent paused several times when he got to the key point. Delman was not in a hurry. He waited patiently for the agent to say the words that would shock the entire United States.
(End of chapter)