I Have Been Here

History buried it. The dark remembered.

It is older than civilization, older than fire, older than the first human word for fear. It feeds on the comprehension of its prey — not the terror, the understanding. It evolved alongside us because we alone are capable of knowing what is being done to us.

In 1673, Robert Hooke went down into a shaft on Oak Island with the pirate William Kidd and the engineer Thomas Bushell. They built a labyrinth around what they had found and sealed it. Hooke kept o...