The Journal

Sad clown with rainbow wig and ghost-hunting gear holds an EMF meter while two cartoonish ghosts loom in the smoky background.

Paranormal Groups Ignore Candle Face Just to Sell Merch

This entry is about nearly two years of asking the paranormal community for help and getting sales pitches back. Out of the 62 groups I...

Arthur Mills
Split attic scene showing glowing corked bottles and parchment on one side, and boxes of rolled documents in shadow on the other.

Candle Face's Fugitives vs. the Remembered: The Difference

This entry explains the two groups of spirits in my care. The Fugitives are the 31 souls who escaped Candle Face's lair through my upstairs...

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Outstretched open hand emerging from darkness, softly illuminated against a shadowy background, suggesting an offer of help or protection.

How to Become a Guardian of Candle Face's Fugitive Souls

This entry explains what it means to become a Guardian of a Fugitive. Their energy is sealed in scrolls where the Master Shadow can't track...

Arthur Mills
Dimly lit wooden desk and chair in a dark, worn room, with several aged handwritten pages scattered across the tabletop.

Candle Face's Lost Souls Need Guardians Before It's Too Late

This entry breaks my silence after February 23. Since then, I've been going through Mr. Smoe's papers and merging my two websites into branchingplotbooks.com, which...

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An aged parchment scroll tied with braided cord and sealed with red wax against a white background.

No More Spirit Bottles: Sealing the Fugitives in Scrolls

This entry describes moving the 31 fugitives out of their glitter-filled bottles and into scrolls. Using the stories I had already saved with their QR...

Arthur Mills
An empty corked glass bottle sits beside an aged handwritten scroll, quill, and ink bottle, with storage boxes stacked in a dim background.

From Bottles to Scrolls: Protecting Candle Face's Fugitives

This entry describes the night I brought Mr. Smoe's thirteen boxes home and read through his scrolls. Each held a name and a voice preserved...

Arthur Mills
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Candle Face and the New Underground Railroad

This entry compares the fugitives to those who escaped slavery on the Underground Railroad, and the Guardians I'm looking for to the stationmasters who hid...

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The Master Shadow from Candle Face Chronicles, a faceless figure formed from swirling smoke.

Candle Face's Vengeance: The Master Shadow Will Return

This entry describes a major shift in the mission. The Lost Souls no longer come, leaving only 31 fugitives who managed to escape Candle Face's...

Arthur Mills
Portrait of young Isabel from Candle Face Chronicles, smiling girl with long dark hair and a patterned Aztec dress.

Candle Face, Mr. Smoe, and the Children of Isabel

This entry explores new evidence tying Candle Face to Isabel, possibly the forgotten daughter of La Llorona. After Mr. Smoe's death, I found connections suggesting...

Arthur Mills
Rows of glowing corked bottles with QR-code labels sit on a dark table beside a candle, papers, pins, and a large QR code.

Candle Face Spirit Bottles: Glitter Protection or a Trap?

This entry describes a meeting with GenX Paranormal Investigations about the 31 fugitives in corked, glitter-filled bottles. I believed the glitter would mask their energy,...

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Large funeral wreath overflowing with pink roses, purple flowers, greenery, and berries, displayed on a simple metal stand.

Candle Face's Reach: The Death of Mr. Smoe

This entry recounts a disturbing phone call from Mr. Smoe's brother, who informed me of his death and casually asked if I wanted to claim...

Arthur Mills
An eerie black-and-white QR code with a ghostly screaming face emerging from the center, surrounded by misty shadows; the QR code links to www.candleface.com.

Candle Face Chronicles: QR Codes and a Box of Fugitives

This entry covers my birthday, spent protecting the fugitives instead of celebrating. I tagged each of the 31 bottles with its own QR code, then...

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