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2.06. 2008
These handwritten notes document what
happened when I returned to my hometown.
I composed this diary to process the terrible
experiences. I hoped that they‘d be able to give
me some relief. Writing down the events allows me to sleep
peacefully again.
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Some things that you will read may sound ridiculous in terms
of common sense. But they actually happened. Believe me!
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If I do not survive this hell, I hope that someone else can do
something with this diary - if it‘s ever found. Maybe my notes
will help anybody who ends up in the same horrid places which
I found myself.
My name is Alex Shepherd, and I come from the small American
town of Shepherd‘s Glen. I‘m searching for my missing brother,
Joshua...
P.S. Joshua, I think about you often!
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My father was a soldier, and I
followed in his footsteps. Not
from an innate love of my countr
y, but because of boredom,
which was so bad it threatened
to smother me in Shepherd's
Glen. But I was ambushed in my
initial combat operation.
I was badly wounded, and flown ba
ck to the States.
I was patched up in a military hos
pital. My wounds
made me captive to a damned wh
eelchair for a long
time. Thanks to the helpfulness
of the pretty nurses,
in their low-cut, white clothes an
d their provocative
stilettos, I learned - if painfully
- to run again. Things
were looking up day by day...
...until one night a nightmare troub
led me. I am sitting in my wheelchair and someon
e is pushing me
through a filthy, run-down clinic.
I hear terrible
screams of people in agony everyw
here.
Then Joshua stands before me,
suddenly. When I talk to him,
he babbles incomprehensible thing
s. When I get close to him, he
immediately runs away. Over and
over again.
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13 years younger than me.
That is my brother Joshua. He is
ied to have another child for a
After I was born, my parents tr
ed,
long time. When Josh finally arriv
everything revolved around him.
From the first day, my parents
spoiled Josh. In the beginning,
I didn't make much of it, since we
were both growing up well.
But at some point, Mum and Dad
started to lose interest in me.
I never worked out why this was.
Joshua
s
s haunt me night after
Since then, these dreadful image
I wake up drenched in
.
ep
sle
my
m
fro
me
ing
nk
ya
,
ht
nig
say I‘m just processing
sweat, screaming. The physicians
full of tranquilizers.
my war experiences and pump me
That is total nonsense!
Processing my war experiences!
have a meaning. But I don't
I am certain that these images
know what.
to this question in the
er
sw
an
an
ive
ce
re
not
ly
ain
rt
ce
I will
hospital.
s to visit me. Even my
Nobody from Shepherd's Glen come
ople from the hospital tried
parents don't come, though the pe
al.
to reach them after my committ
not right
I get the feeling that something is
in Shepherd's Glen.
I must go back.
night tonight. Nothing is
I will flee from the hospital at mid
h is finally okay and
alt
he
of
e
at
st
y
M
!
re
he
me
g
din
hol
an escape route: a highway
out
ed
rk
wo
ve
ha
I
a ride
passes by in the vicinity. If I find
in the
there, I will be in Shepherd's Glen
early hours of the morning.
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Entry Patient’s File
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The patient in Room 206 is
undergoing
a transorbital lobotomy tomo
rrow.
I have determined that afte
r the
surgery the subsequent medi
cation is
to be doubled.
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Our mayor loves alcohol more than
his people. The Bartletts founded
Shepherd’s Glen together with my
great-great-grandfather.
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The Fitch forefathers founded
Shepherd's Glen
together with the Holloways, the
Bartletts and
the Shepherds. He is the town do
ctor. His little
daughter is Scarlet; she loves do
lls more than
anything else.
the army, I'm back in
in
e
m
ti
y
m
er
ft
A
!
am
Here I
e hospital worked:
th
of
t
ou
t
ge
to
an
pl
Shepherd's Glen. My
its driver a man named
y,
wa
gh
hi
e
th
on
d
pe
a truck stop
t.
me off in Main Stree
d
pe
op
dr
e
H
y.
gu
e
ic
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Travis Grady.
self, I was in a deep
it
e
iv
dr
e
th
t
ou
ab
h
I didn't notice muc
damn nightmare again.
at
th
d
ce
en
ri
pe
ex
d
sleep ... an
out of my head...
ua
sh
Jo
of
es
ag
im
e
th
I just can't get
ppened to him!
ha
‘s
at
wh
t
ou
ab
d
ie
I'm worr
nue
house on Craven Ave
s‘
nt
re
pa
y
m
to
es
ut
It is only min
I'don‘t trust my own
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re
he
g
on
wr
‘s
at
wh
from here. But
s as
s to be vacant; it feel
em
se
wn
to
ole
wh
he
T
eyes.
vered by mist.
co
so
al
‘s
wn
to
he
T
ill.
if it were standing st
ous.
It makes me feel anxi
pherd's Glen.
She is the judge in She
e called Elle and Nora.
Her two daughters ar
ded Shepherd's Glen.
un
fo
so
al
s
ay
ow
oll
H
The
Holloways.
Dad never liked the
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blowing in from Toluca
is
t
is
m
e
th
at
th
e
m
It seems to
eled there for boating
av
tr
ys
wa
al
ve
ha
s
Lake. Tourist
ent almost every free
sp
I
d
an
ua
sh
Jo
g;
in
sh
and fi
the summer months.
ng
ri
du
h
ac
be
e
th
on
moment
,
ter, Dad forbade us
wa
e
th
to
in
nt
we
r
ve
But we ne
cross the lake to
to
s
ve
el
rs
ou
d
te
us
tr
and we never
was taboo.
Silent Hill - the place
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The St. Alchemilla Hospital is one of two hospitals
in the neighboring town of Silent Hill.
and my parents is okay,
me
n
ee
tw
be
ip
sh
ion
lat
re
e
th
if
Even
face as they open
my
g
ein
se
on
y
sa
'll
ey
th
at
wh
us
I am curio
ally proud of me? He was in
the door of the house. Is Dad fin
distinguished soldier with many
the military 15 years and was a
n out of me for a long time.
ma
al
re
a
ke
ma
to
ied
tr
He
ls.
meda
Until Joshua was born.
ps - if only for a short time.
However, I followed in his footste
s thought of me as a
ay
alw
s
ha
ad
D
!
ry
inju
r
wa
d
ne
Dam
nted this preconception
wa
I
,
my
ar
e
th
ed
join
I
en
Wh
.
weakling
. I wanted to show him. That's
to be put to rest once and for all
, he never thought I had it in me.
right! I volunteered for the army
h
dream about appears
ys
wa
al
I
at
th
al
it
sp
The ho
l. It is over there
ta
pi
os
H
illa
m
he
lc
A
e
to be th
things have not
w,
no
k
I
as
r
fa
s
A
ill.
in Silent H
number of years.
a
r
fo
e
er
th
t
gh
ri
en
be
meone called
Rumour has it that so
ker, I don't know his
uc
tr
a
d
an
on
as
M
Harry
d bad things there.
name, both experience
ar
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Death lurks in the streets of Sh
epherd’s Glen. I was attacked in
front of our house by several wild
dogs. These are no normal stray
dogs - instead of a coat, they ha
ve only raw flesh, muscles and sin
ew.
They have a razor-sharp bite, mo
ve as swift as an arrow and ha
ve
an incredible jump.
Luckily I’ve been trained in hand
-to-hand combat, so I was able
to
defend myself against the beas
ts with my combat knife and oth
er
objects (axe, steel pipe...) which
I had found.
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time to say goodbye to
no
d
ha
I
y,
m
ar
e
th
ed
When I join
known each other.
ys
wa
al
ve
e'
W
r.
he
e
lov
Elle. I think I
n and later we went to
re
ild
ch
as
er
th
ge
to
We used to play
high school together.
ct that her forefa
e
th
to
ion
nt
te
at
She didn't pay much
for
n. It wasn't a burden
le
G
s
d'
er
ph
he
S
d
de
fathers foun
ng. She always does
ro
st
ad
he
en
be
ys
wa
her, but she's al
up to these days.
s
e’
sh
at
wh
w
no
k
t
n'
her own thing. I do
These insects are
dangerous bloodsuckers.
Before you know it,
they are hanging all over
your body. As soon as you
discover them, you need
to pull them off!
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Dad and Wheeler stand for law and
order in Shepherd's Glen. It is known that
the deputy is untrusting and believes in all
kinds of conspiracy theories.
Witc
He knows a policewoman from nearby
Braham who went missing approximately
20 years ago in Silent Hill. That’s one of
the reasons Dad forbade us to go there.
The doctors say that I am not in
a position to distinguish
between reality and fantasy. I am
firmly convinced that
they know exactly what is going
on here.
I see how demons kill patients!
I would like to flee from this accu
rsed place immediately,
but I don't trust myself to go int
o the light.
It appears as if the creatures
are attracted by the lamp
light. Patients that require light
in order to be able to
see something are their prey. Th
ey also react to any little
sound. If I want to get out of here
alive, I should stay in the
dark and be as quiet as possible.
m
Elle gave me a walkie-talkie a litt
le while ago.
We have been in close contact ev
er since.
The walkie-talking emits noise wh
en these beasts approach.
The closer they come, the louder
the static. Knowing this has
already saved my skin a few tim
es...
If anyone should actually find my
notes, know this:
Every monster has a weak spot,
if not several. Some of them you
have to disable initially with light
blows and then fell with a massive
blow once and for all. I also recomm
end that you study the attack
pattern of the creatures in case
you need to avoid them.
ua actually
"Home, Sweet Home” as if! Josh
disappeared without a trace!
has become
The nightmare that troubles me
emotional wreck
a reality. I discovered Mother an
d stares out the
- she sits in her rocking chair an
window all day long.
shua...
Dad has gone off in search of Jo
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things that happened
le
ib
rr
te
e
th
of
l
al
t
My Dad told me abou
hepherd's Glen,
S
e
lik
ill,
H
nt
ile
S
.
gs
thin
in Silent Hill. Horrible
0s.
ories began in the 197
st
e
th
y
sa
y
he
T
e.
lies on Toluca Lak
ive resort, metamorat
pl
em
nt
co
d
an
ul
ef
Silent Hill, the peac
evil!
phosed into something
ange
ucker?!... felt this ch
tr
a
e,
ut
in
m
a
it
wa
A trucker...
ught in a hellish
ca
s
wa
he
s,
or
m
ru
e
ve th
first-hand. If you belie
.
nted with his own past
ro
nf
co
s
wa
d
an
d
rl
wo
parallel
m
ed to spend his
nt
wa
on
as
M
ry
ar
H
n
Then in 1983, a certai
Hill.
hter Cheryl in Silent
ug
da
s
hi
th
wi
on
ti
ca
va
ortly before they
sh
nt
de
ci
ac
an
s
wa
There
he two were in a car
T
:
ion
at
in
st
de
r
ei
th
reached
came to, there was no
crash and, as Mason
wards the town,
to
n
ra
e
H
.
er
ht
ug
da
trace of his
e met an occult sect
H
e.
er
th
r
he
nd
fi
to
hoping
called "The Order".
Cheryl
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Their leader, Dahlia Gillespie, wa
nted to conjure up a
demonic deity in Silent Hill.
Ten years later, 1993,
8 James Sund
erland received a
letter from Silent Hill. The send
er was his wife.
Of course, this is nothing unusua
l, except that in this particular
case she had already been dead
for more than three years.
Sunderland drove towards Silen
t Hill, since his spouse was
waiting for him in their "special pla
ce". Supposedly the town was
wrapped in thick fog again.
Since then, no one has seen or he
ard anything from
James Sunderland. Oh yes, and
his wife's name was
Mary Shepherd-Sunderland. Wa
s she related to me?
5, there were rum
In 2000
ors that "The Order" was
searching for Cheryl Mason. Si
nce Harry suspected
this, they moved to a different
town to be safe. But,
apparently, they were tracked
down. Harry Mason
eventually killed one of the pursu
ers, but he was
acquitted in court.
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er of
Claudia Wolf, the lead
Claudia Wolf
ilent
the religious sect in S
not let
Hill at that time, did
ecessor,
up. Just like her pred
njure up a mighty
co
to
ed
nt
wa
e
sh
,
ie
Dahlia Gillesp
godlike demon.
s of Silent
One of the attraction
Lakeside
Hill is apparently the
Amusement Park.
d animal,
Does Joshua's stuffe
are,
which I see in my nightm
itc
n't
come from there? I ca
make any sense of it.
This is Robbie, Joshua's
stuffed animal. On the bottom:
Lakeside Amusement Park,
Silent Hill.
The name, Silent Hill, goes back to
the legend of the people, whose lan
d
was stolen from them.
They named this location ”The Pla
ce of the Still Spirits“. By ”Spirits“
,
they did not mean their dead relatives
only, but also the spirits that, as they
believed, inhabited the trees, the roc
ks and the water around them. In the
legend, it is said, that the holiest cer
emonies were held here.
But it was not the forefathers of tho
se people who now live in this tow
n,
who stole the land from the people.
There were others, who came before
.
At that time, this town had another nam
e. But this name is now hopelessly
lost in the mist of time. We only know
that it had another name and that the
town was left at some point for som
e reason by the inhabitants. **
** from the book of ”Lost Memorie
s“ of Silent Hill 2
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e of what happened
m
so
w
no
k
I
,
ed
rv
se
ob
As I have already
systematically
s
wa
wn
to
e
th
s,
ar
ye
in Silent Hill. Over the
y pie, especially
er
ev
in
er
ng
fi
s
it
d
ha
r"
undermined. "The Orde
s and the orphanage.
al
it
sp
ho
as
ch
su
s
ion
in public institut
ation of their belief.
ag
op
pr
e
th
r
fo
es
ac
They used these pl
Dahlia
Gillespie
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and brainwashed
le
op
pe
ed
pp
na
id
k
r
de
It is said that The Or
nt
. The orphanage in Sile
nt
ia
pl
m
co
e
m
ca
be
ey
them, so that th
a re-education camp.
an
th
e
or
m
g
in
th
no
s
Hill wa
established rules were
e
th
th
wi
y
pl
m
co
t
no
And persons who did
e was also a group
er
th
,
er
ev
ow
H
.
d"
or
"L
killed by order of the
the sect.
of volunteers who joined
n
s union was sealed
The end of the religiou
(Silent Hill),
after Dahlia Gillespie
her daughter,
with the assistance of
conjure up the god
Alessa, was unable to
and when the sect
of the fanatical sect
(Silent Hill 3) also
olf
W
ia
ud
la
C
s,
es
st
prie
later on.
failed miserably in this
>
There is evidence
that makes the
connection between
the Order and the
native people clea
r. For example, a
ritual stone stands
in the forest of
Silent Hill. The Or
der names it the
”mother stone“ and
erected the orphanage nearby. The na
tive people also
used it at ceremoni
es to speak with
the dead. They name
d the stone
„Nahkeehona“.
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Ritual murderer, Walter Sullivan
(Silent Hill IV: The Room),
carried out the rest - he pushed
the last priest of the cult
and operator of the orphanage in
Silent Hill, Toby Archbolt,
from a cliff in Mexico.
ore commonplace
m
h
uc
m
is
ill
H
nt
le
Si
at is
As expected, a life in
at Evil“, ”The Order“, th
re
”G
e
th
d
an
d,
ar
he
ve
than some ha
which all religions
om
fr
s,
ys
ab
e
m
sa
e
th
om
sought, originated fr
of the followers
s
ad
he
al
tic
na
fa
e
th
an
th
,
originate: no part darker
themselves.
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SINCE THEN, THE ORDER
NO LONGER EXISTS!
At that time, the circular symb
ol of The Order
represented a deity. The two ex
ternal rings stand for
charity and resurrection. The th
ree circles in the interior
represent the past, the present
and the future. The sign
was normally drawn in red but som
etimes appeared in other
colors. Blue would mean that this
god is cursed.
The aforesaid deity is addresse
d as "Holy Mother". The
cult followers speak of "god" or sim
ply name the center of
their belief "she", since in many wr
itings and images of The
Order their god is represented as
a woman. This god is
supposed to bring the believers sa
lvation and paradise.
Silent Hill apparently influences
the total religion itself the town was built on holy ground.
Does this location possess
supernatural powers?
ted by the decision
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el
re
we
s
on
rs
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serve the will
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