The Bradley Recordings

Origin: scenario "The Moonchild" by Paul Fricker

Description

Over a period of years through the late early 2000s, a spirit identified as "Bradley Kimble", an invisible entity seen only by his parents and a handful of occultists in the Milton Keynes area of England, was interviewed and interrogated by a number of occultists. Some of the talks were amicable, and some descended into confrontation, screaming, and profanity; a number of the talks include segments that took the form of ineffective exorcism attempts using a variety of occult-derived techniques.

Most listeners will hear only the interviewers' voices; the interviewers (identified only as "Mari", "David", and "Nathan") speak in English (with accents common to Northampton, England). A few psychically sensitive listeners - or listeners exposed to specially enhanced versions of the recording - will also hear hear the distorted and inhuman voice of Bradley, who speaks in a variety of languages including English, Latin, Aklo, Ancient Sumerian, and Dutch.

The content is occult and religious in nature; a typical interrogation session might consist of an interview with "Bradley" consisting of a number of basic questions about its immediate surroundings (apparently a suburban basement) to establish a "baseline", followed by questions testing its clairvoyant and remote viewing capabilities and knowledge of past and future events, followed by questions of a more esoteric nature concerning other planes of reality, occult entities, and rituals and spells. Many of Bradley's responses are deceptive, omitting important details or outright lying to the interviewers, suggesting that Bradley is testing the interviewers' knowledge of the occult and of information and events that might be implied to be of some importance to Bradley; some (but not all) of these deceptive responses account for the less amicable interviews. Many sessions end with exorcism attempts derived from Qaballic, esoteric, and Satanic sources, as well as a few from Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and other sources; Bradley's responses sometimes seem variously to be amusement, disgust, or apathy, punctuated with violence and other extreme reactions, sometimes staged to give the interviewers the impression that the exorcisms are actually making progress. Some of the sessions begin or otherwise contain segments in which the interviewers torture Bradley in various ways in apparent attempts to break its will and force cooperation and submission, with little or no noticeable progress toward those goals; these sessions involving torture account for some (but not all) of the other difficult sessions with Bradley (this entity appears sometimes to have begun sessions with irrational outbursts of rage and other strong emotions for the purpose of manipulating or playing with the interviewers, or for other reasons of its own.)

Original Recordings

Language: English, Latin, Aklo, Ancient Sumerian, Dutch, and other languages

Physical Description: Recordings on a mixture of cassette tapes and digital files, amounting to hundreds of hours; not well-cataloged. Listening to a selection of these recordings over a couple of hours would provide enough for the equivalent of an Initial Reading of a tome.

General Content: The content is occult and religious in nature, consisting (for most listeners) of interviews/interrogations in English, with answers that are only audible to some listeners under normal circumstances (though the recordings can be enhanced with techniques applied by a dedicated sound engineer).

Number of known copies (if rare): only one original copy

Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): last seen in the hands of amateur occultists in Milton Keynes, England, ca. 2013

Mythos Content

Suggested Spells: Dominate, Command Animal

• Study: 1 month.
• Sanity loss: 1D6
• Cthulhu Mythos: +2% Initial, +4% Full Study.
• Mythos Rating: 18

Handwritten Transcript

Language: English, with the Latin, Dutch, and some other such languages poorly translated into English

Physical Description: a hand-written transcript of the recordings, omitting unflattering and/or incriminating details about the interviewers.

General Content: The content is occult and religious in nature, consisting (for most listeners) of interviews/interrogations between three interviewers (identified only as "Mari", "David", and "Nathan"), and an occult entity (identified here only as "It"), whose answers in many cases are foreign languages translated imperfectly into English; many other passages are marked as "Indistinct", with speculative translations apparently derived during later seances with other spirits conducted by the interviewers.

Number of known copies (if rare): only one original copy

Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): last seen in the hands of amateur occultists in Milton Keynes, England, ca. 2013

Mythos Content

Suggested Spells: Dominate, Command Animal

• Study: 1 month.
• Sanity loss: 1D6
• Cthulhu Mythos: +2% Initial, +4% Full Study.
• Mythos Rating: 18

Data Transcript (dmonlolz.zip)

Language: English

Physical Description: A word-processor text file version of the handwritten transcript accompanied by MP3 versions of some of the milder interrogations, as well as (possibly fake) JPG images allegedly taken during the sessions, distributed by email and sometimes on USB storage media (stick memory). Internet video versions of varying quality have also been adapted.

General Content: The content is similar to the manuscript transcription, except that it includes some embellishments such as text annotations and framing stories, translation corrections, and multimedia sound and image files of varying quality and mixed origins (some of the additions are almost certainly fake, some - such as the MP3 recordings, are real).

Number of known copies (if rare): unknown

Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): copies of the Bradley Recordings regularly appear in occult and satanic websites

Mythos Content

Suggested Spells: Dominate, Command Animal

• Study: 1 month.
• Sanity loss: 1D6
• Cthulhu Mythos: +2% Initial, +4% Full Study.
• Mythos Rating: 18

"The Bradley Sessions"

Langugage: Usually English, sometimes others

Content: Adaptations of varying quality have been made for internet video websites, with some sound effects and imagery derived from the file attachments from the data file, accompanied by narration in a typically monotone voice, or by text-to-speech. Most of these versions are based on only the interviewers' side of the conversation. The content is sometimes presented as original fiction, sometimes as a true story that happened to the poster's "little brother" or some other family member, or to a "friend of a friend".

Number of known copies (if rare): unknown

Last know location of surviving copies (if rare): embellished adaptations of the interviewers' side of the conversation have appeared on "creepo-pasta" websites with fabricated (but suspiciously knowledgeable) versions of "Bradley's" half of the conversation, and recently on internet video websites in a watered-down form. The fake "Bradley" passages sometimes include some accurate but sketchy Mythos content, different from that found in the real transcripts.

Mythos Content

Suggested Spells: Dominate, Command Animal

• Study: 1 day.
• Sanity loss: none/negligible
• Cthulhu Mythos: negligible

Appearances

• Call of Cthulhu Scenario: "The Moonchild" by Paul Fricker

Heresies and Controversies

• Alternative_theory. (source)