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CASE FILE: 047

THE POND

CASE WRITTEN BY: Yvonne Aore

INCIDENT TYPE: Unexplained Phenomenon / Altered Identity

PRIMARY WITNESS: Zuri Campbell

CLAIMED IDENTITY: Daniel Hart

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Detective Inspector Christopher Thompson

STATUS: OPEN

Twenty-two-year-old Zuri Campbell walks into a North Yorkshire police station with an impossible claim:

She is actually Daniel Hart.

There is only one problem.

Daniel Hart does not exist.

Every official record identifies the woman as Zuri Campbell. Her history is documented. Her identity is unquestioned. And no one remembers Daniel—except Zuri.

She claims it began with a mysterious fountain outside White Rose Galleria. It appeared without warning and offered something impossible:

One penny. One wish.

Then the fountain disappeared.

But the wish remained.

As Detective Inspector Christopher Thompson investigates, he discovers the fountain may be only the latest manifestation of something far older.

Across centuries, strange ponds have appeared where they shouldn't exist. People approach them wanting one thing—but the water seems to know what they secretly desire.

The wishes are granted.

Lives are rewritten.

People disappear.

And sometimes, someone dies.

Historical accounts suggest the ponds don't simply change the future.

They change the past so completely that the world forgets anything was ever different.

But traces remain.

And Detective Thompson may have just found one.

THE POND DOESN'T GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

IT GIVES YOU WHAT YOU REALLY WANT.

Filed By: Hallowfield Publishing

Reviews

Case File: 047 — The Pond

☆☆☆☆☆ “A brilliantly unsettling mystery that turns the innocent act of making a wish into something terrifying. The Pond makes you wonder whether getting what you truly want might be the worst thing that could happen.”— The Lantern Society Review

☆☆☆☆☆ “Part police investigation, part supernatural case file, The Pond builds an eerie mythology around mysterious bodies of water capable of rewriting not only lives, but history itself.”— Haunted America Journal

☆☆☆☆☆ “The disappearance of Daniel Hart is an irresistible mystery: How do you prove you once existed when reality itself says you never did? Yvonne Aore delivers a haunting premise that stays with you.”— The Cryptid Chronicle

☆☆☆☆☆ “One penny. One wish. One completely altered existence. The Pond transforms the familiar wishing fountain into a disturbing supernatural force that knows its victims better than they know themselves.”— The Hollow Watch

☆☆☆☆☆ “Creepy, intelligent, and filled with unanswered questions, The Pond captures exactly what makes a Hallowfield Case File so compelling, the investigation may end, but the mystery follows you home.”— The Unexplained Gazette