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| Registered Phenomena Code: 965 Containment Rating: Gamma Neutralized Lethality Rating: Red White |
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Containment Protocols: As of [10/04/2024], the lethal properties of RPC-965 have been neutralized. As a result, the history of RPC-965 has been deemed mundane enough not to threaten normalcy. A public disinformation campaign has been preemptively established to counter the possibility of potential individuals reporting on their past encounters with RPC-965. Across the internet, RPC AI web crawlers have seeded different internet forums with fictitious ghost tales, typically involving late-night sightings. These accounts tell of roads that show up on no map, haunted by ethereal phantom cars of different makes and models.
Regions commonly affected by RPC-965
Description: RPC-965 resembles a 4-doored, cyan 1953 Hudson Hornet modified to house a 7-X engine. This entity will manifest in drastically different wrecked conditions with varying levels of structural deterioration (See Addenda 2). RPC-965 will only appear at night on California roads overlooking the Pacific Ocean. An encounter with RPC-965 will cease if a driver or passenger departs from their vehicle to check on the wreckage. Thereafter, drivers will develop symptoms of lightheadedness and awaken at their intended destination. Nevertheless, if RPC-965 is disregarded, it will reappear on the roadway behind the driver. RPC-965 will take on a new pristine appearance with a slight greenish glow. In this state, RPC-965 will attempt to terminate the offending motorist, utilizing a sequence of aggressive driving maneuvers.
During the documented encounters with the anomalous vehicle, it was apparent that RPC-965 did not operate off ordinary laws of physics. Speed is a continuous factor for the anomaly, not a direction of motion. This allowed the vehicle to round corners and change trajectory effortlessly. Added by its indestructibility, RPC-965 has enough kinetic energy to discharge minor explosions during a collision.
Still image taken of RPC-965 by Agent ██████ 's rearview car camera
Discovery: Missing person reports of beachgoers and seaside romantics had a sizable uptick in the early 1960s. While most staff at the beachside Site-095 theorized the surge was not abnormal beyond potential criminal activity, a cautionary investigation was initiated. Through authoritative interviews with the civilian population, researchers deduced that RPC-965 targeted specific characteristics commonly found in hippie, stoner, and surfer sub-cultures. While personnel at Site-095 would attempt to partake in counter-cultural practices to provoke an encounter with RPC-965, no sighting was ever acquired. As decades passed and the popularity of the subcultural communities dwindled, so did the reports of missing persons. For a time, the Authority considered RPC-965 to be nearly neutralized.
Staff would enter and leave Site-095 without incident until 03/05/2016, when Agent ██████ was reported missing during an authorized vacation trip with his wife to celebrate their honeymoon. Upon reanalyzing Agent ██████'s characteristic profile, researchers realized it checked off multiple RPC-965 target benchmarks. Local Authority staff would launch a covert manhunt starting with the last known GPS location. Agent ██████'s car would be found beached on a rocky coastline 4.3 km from ████████ Cove. Both his and his wife's body were never found, presumably swept out to sea. OIRS Technicians recovered camera recordings from the wreckage, affirming the validity of RPC-965's existence.
Addendum 1: As the legalization of marijuana and the revival of new counter-cultural groups spread across California, missing person reports began to peak. To protect personnel, all staff at Site-095 were advised to avoid provoking RPC-965 should they ever encounter it. Utilizing different CSDs with a high probability of confronting RPC-965, staff would begin to assemble a behavioral profile on RPC-965. On 09/29/2024, roughly eight years into the search, the Authority had encountered RPC-965 fifteen times. In all cases where RPC-965 was challenged, CSDs would be run off the road. Due to the many vehicle safety features, all survived with minor injuries.
Addendum 2: During Event-965-15, CSD-5422 noted that RPC-965 was in better condition than on previous occasions. The lack of damage and metal deformation in the rear allowed CSD-5422 to take note of RPC-965's license plates, ███-███. These plates were traced back to ███████ Drive, a dilapidated beachfront property. Agents finished their sweep by moving to the small garage attached to the home. In the adjacent garage, a wooden coffin was uncovered, surrounded by a newly lit circle of candles. On the coffin were flowers, an image of a young man in their early 20s, and a farewell letter reading:
Photograph of the deceased
I still hear the engine, a low, steady hum,
your Hudson Hornet, once brighter than the sun.
Cyan blue, a streak through the sky,
now a ghost in my mind, as you pass me by.
The '60s were wild, streets crackling with fire,
but you burned with a different kind of desire.
Grease in your hair, steel in your veins,
you ruled the road, untamed by its chains.But one night, it ended far too soon,
under the watch of a pale crescent moon.
A hit-and-run—cowards running free,
a van draped in flowers, hiding their cruelty.
A pair of so-called lovers, with smoke in their heads,
fled while you lay there, broken and dead.I rage at their peace, their careless flight,
surfboards rattling as they disappear into the night.
What kind of love drives passes without a care,
leaving the wreckage of a heart laid bare?Your cyan car still haunts my dreams. Its
roar unsilenced, so it seems.
For I wait for the day, just around the bend,
when my justice will come, a harbinger of their end.
They may run, but they won't get far,
for the road will find them beneath the same dark star.
Love, C. C.
Incident Log: Direct evidence of RPC-965's apparitional nature was confirmed. Despite the deployed Agent’s enthusiasm to destroy the ritual, Site Command had determined it best to examine the contents in-house. To avoid disturbing the ritual site, floorboards, and accompanying occult items were removed altogether. All contents were loaded into an armored semi-truck at 6:00 PM PST and would depart to an Authority cargo ship docked at Site-095. Fourteen minutes into the drive, the motorcade encountered an RPC-965 event. Acting atypically, RPC-965 immediately materialized behind the delivery drivers. RPC-965 would perform a sequence of PIT maneuvers and break-checks, forcing the Authority's cars off the roadway.
The transport team determined that RPC-965 could be forced to change direction if they used their cargo container as a directional barrier. The truck team accelerated to 365mph before making a sharp right turn into the roadside rock wall. The truck and cargo container went into a rollover, blocking most of the roadway. RPC-965 executed a perfect U-turn in response. While RPC-965 began to burn rubber, a rockslide caused by the collision engulfed the route. The armored truck and all occult contents would last be seen falling over the cliff edge, slamming into the rocky waters below. Agents would report seeing RPC-965 rust, disintegrate, and ultimately be blown away by the wind moments later.