★ TOMMY K's WEIRD ILLINOIS PAGE ★

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hi!! my name is tommy and im 14 and i live in springfield IL and i am REALLY into weird stuff that happens around here that nobody talks about!! i found the HADP webring through warren's site and he said it was ok if i joined even though im not a scientist or anything, just someone who pays attention!!

i have been collecting stories from my town and nearby about weird things, especially anything about weird roads or places where things feel wrong. my grandpa told me about a road that shows up in fog that isn't there when the fog clears and i have been trying to find it since 5th grade!!

WEIRD STUFF I HAVE FOUND

june 1997 - this is my first real post!!

ok so there is this place off route 36 near buffalo that everyone in my school knows about but nobody will say exactly where it is?? like people know of it but when you ask them to describe how to get there they kind of forget?? i think that's weird and i wrote it down. warren said that's called "spatial dislocation in oral tradition" which is a cool way to say what i was thinking!! i drove out there on a saturday with my window down blasting Smells Like Teen Spirit which felt appropriate for driving around looking at weird stuff. i kept thinking about that X-Files episode where the monster hides in the trees and you can't see it until it moves - i don't know why, probably just being out near a lot of trees. didn't find anything that trip but i had a good time.

august 1997

went out to the route 36 area with my friend derek (hi derek if you're reading this) and we didn't find the road my grandpa talked about but we DID find a survey stake in a field that had no reason to be there. i have seen warren talk about these. i took a photo but my disposable camera messed up. i wrote down where it was: 39.8441° N, 89.6447° W. warren said to always write down coordinates which is good advice actually.

november 1997

derek doesn't want to go out anymore. he said the field where we found the stake felt bad. i kind of know what he means but i also want to go back? like i feel like i missed something. i went by myself last weekend and i couldn't find the stake again. i found a different one about a quarter mile away. i didn't write down the coordinates because i forgot my notebook. i remember what direction it was pointing though. it was pointing toward the water tower. the water tower is to the east but the stake was pointing south-southeast. that means it wasn't pointing at the water tower at all and i don't know why i said that. the stake was pointing south-southeast.

march 1998

update: i found four more stakes. i have been making a map. i am not going to post the map yet because i want to make sure i am doing it right. i have been emailing with warren and he says my methodology is good which is really cool because he is a professional and i'm just some kid. he also said i should not visit the stake locations alone. i have been visiting them alone because derek still won't come and i don't want to tell my parents why i am going to these fields. i went back to the first coordinate. the stake was back. it was in a slightly different position than before - closer to where the second one was when i saw it in november. i checked the bearing. the bearing has changed. i don't understand why a stake in the ground would have a different bearing than before. stakes don't rotate. i know that stakes don't rotate.

july 1998

i know i haven't updated in a while. school was busy. i'm going to be a sophomore. i have been thinking a lot this summer. i went back to the field three more times and the stakes are always in slightly different positions and i am now positive they are moving in a pattern. i have the data at home. when i plot the positions over time the movement is not random. i don't know what it is yet but it is not random. i have not emailed warren about this. i have started a new notebook that i keep separate from my other research notebooks. i don't know why i am keeping a separate notebook. i just feel like i should. also i used to bring my walkman out there, i had the Dookie tape going basically the whole summer. i stopped bringing it in june. it felt wrong somehow. like i was being too loud in a library.

october 1998

the stakes have converged. i know where they are going. i know what they are measuring. i am going out tonight to see what is at the point they are converging on. i will update when i come back.

november 1998

i came back. warren's site has not updated since october. i looked at all the member sites today. meredith, angie, constance - everyone seems fine. if derek reads this: it's ok. i get it now. if my parents read this: i'm fine. i just went to a field. i stood at the convergence point for a while and nothing happened. then it did. not an event - more like something settling into place that had always been going to settle there. i don't have better words for it. i wrote it in the notebook.

december 1998

i keep coming back to update this and then not updating it. i don't know what to say that i haven't already said better by not saying it. i eat breakfast every morning. i go to school. i come home. i do homework. i sleep. i'm a normal sophomore. i have a normal life. everything that is supposed to be part of my life is still part of my life. i just also know some things now that i didn't know before. things about the fields. about the stakes. about what they were measuring and why the measurement matters and who needed it measured. i know who needed it measured. i'm not going to write that here because i don't think this page is the right place for that and also because because i think they already know i know. you don't need to write something down for it to be documented. i have learned that.

last updated: december 1998
tommy k. - springfield IL
member of the heartland anomaly documentation project
tommyk_xfiles@hotmail.com