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These handwritten notes document what

happened when I returned to my hometown.

I composed this diary to process the terrible

experiences. I hoped that they‘d be able to give
me some relief. Writing down the events allows me to sleep

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peacefully again.

Some things that you will read may sound ridiculous in terms
of common sense. But they actually happened. Believe me!

If I do not survive this hell, I hope that someone else can do

something with this diary - if it‘s ever found. Maybe my notes
will help anybody who ends up in the same horrid places which
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ........................ 1
Cover...................... I found myself.
ga n. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .................................. 3
How it all be
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ........................... 5 My name is Alex Shepherd, and I come from the small American
Back in the town ...
town of Shepherd‘s Glen. I‘m searching for my missing brother,
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ................................ 7
Hard legacy Joshua...
in g on he re ?! ... ... ... ... ... ...................... 8
What the hell is go
w ab ou t S ile nt H ill. ... .................................. 10
What I kno
ul t. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ........................ 13
The Silent Hill C
im pr in t. ... ... ... ................................... 15
Buying the ga m e/ P.S. Joshua, I think about you often!
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VIDEOTAPE ARE
My father was a soldier, and I MY NIGHTM
followed in his footsteps. Not
from an innate love of my countr
y, but because of boredom,
which was so bad it threatened
to smother me in Shepherd's
Glen. But I was ambushed in my
initial combat operation.
I was badly wounded, and flown ba
ck to the States.
play stop
I was patched up in a military hos
pital. My wounds
made me captive to a damned wh
eelchair for a long
time. Thanks to the helpfulness
of the pretty nurses,
in their low-cut, white clothes an
d their provocative
stilettos, I learned - if painfully 13 years younger than me.
- to run again. Things That is my brother Joshua. He is
were looking up day by day... ied to have another child for a
After I was born, my parents tr
ed,
long time. When Josh finally arriv
...until one night a nightmare troub
led me. I am sit- everything revolved around him.
ting in my wheelchair and someon
e is pushing me From the first day, my parents
through a filthy, run-down clinic.
I hear terrible spoiled Josh. In the beginning,
screams of people in agony everyw
here. I didn't make much of it, since we
Then Joshua stands before me,
suddenly. When I talk to him, were both growing up well.
he babbles incomprehensible thing
s. When I get close to him, he But at some point, Mum and Dad
immediately runs away. Over and
over again. started to lose interest in me.
I never worked out why this was.

Joshua
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Entry Patient’s File

-------- ------------
The patient in Room 206 is
undergoing
a transorbital lobotomy tomo
rrow.
I have determined that afte
s haunt me night after
Since then, these dreadful image
r the
surgery the subsequent medi
ht , ya nk ing me fro m my sle ep . I wake up drenched in cation is
nig to be doubled.
say I‘m just processing
sweat, screaming. The physicians
full of tranquilizers.
my war experiences and pump me
That is total nonsense!
Processing my war experiences!
have a meaning. But I don't
I am certain that these images
know what.

rt ain ly not re ce ive an an sw er to this question in the

I will ce
hospital.

s to visit me. Even my

Nobody from Shepherd's Glen come
ople from the hospital tried
parents don't come, though the pe
al.
to reach them after my committ

not right in Shepherd's Glen.

I get the feeling that something is
I must go back.

night tonight. Nothing is

I will flee from the hospital at mid
g me he re ! M y st at e of he alt h is finally okay and
hol din
I ha ve wo rk ed out an escape route: a highway

a ride
passes by in the vicinity. If I find
in the
there, I will be in Shepherd's Glen
early hours of the morning.
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Our mayor loves alcohol more than

his people. The Bartletts founded
Shepherd’s Glen together with my
great-great-grandfather.

ö6
2.06.200 The Fitch forefathers founded
Shepherd's Glen
together with the Holloways, the
Bartletts and
the Shepherds. He is the town do
ctor. His little
daughter is Scarlet; she loves do
lls more than
anything else.

! A ft er m y ti m e in the army, I'm back in

Here I am
pl an to ge t ou t of th e hospital worked:
Shepherd's Glen. My
pe d on th e hi gh wa y, its driver a man named
a truck stop t.
ic e gu y. H e dr op pe d me off in Main Stree
Travis Grady. N
h ab ou t th e dr iv e it self, I was in a deep
I didn't notice muc
d ex pe ri en ce d th at damn nightmare again.
sleep ... an

e im ag es of Jo sh ua out of my head...
I just can't get th
ie d ab ou t wh at ‘s ha ppened to him!
I'm worr

nue
ut es to m y pa re nt s‘ house on Craven Ave
It is only min
wh at ‘s wr on g he re ? I'don‘t trust my own
from here. But pherd's Glen.
wh ole to wn se em s to be vacant; it feel
s as She is the judge in She
eyes. T he
vered by mist. e called Elle and Nora.
ill. T he to wn ‘s al so co Her two daughters ar
if it were standing st fo un ded Shepherd's Glen.
The H oll ow ay s al so
ous.
It makes me feel anxi Holloways.
Dad never liked the
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m e th at th e m is t is blowing in from Toluca

It seems to
s ha ve al wa ys tr av eled there for boating
Lake. Tourist

a
in g; Jo sh ua an d I sp ent almost every free
and fi sh
on th e be ac h du ri ng the summer months.
moment ,
ve r we nt in to th e wa ter, Dad forbade us
But we ne
us te d ou rs el ve s to cross the lake to
and we never tr
was taboo.
Silent Hill - the place

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The St. Alchemilla Hospital is one of two hospitals

in the neighboring town of Silent Hill.
2.06.200

if th e re lat ion sh ip be tw ee n me and my parents is okay,

Even
wh at th ey 'll sa y on se ein g my face as they open
I am curio us
ally proud of me? He was in
the door of the house. Is Dad fin
distinguished soldier with many
the military 15 years and was a
ls. He tr ied to ma ke a re al ma n out of me for a long time.
meda
Until Joshua was born.

ps - if only for a short time.

However, I followed in his footste

h
ne d wa r inju ry ! D ad ha s alw ay s thought of me as a
Dam
. Wh en I join ed th e ar my , I wa nted this preconception
weakling
. I wanted to show him. That's
to be put to rest once and for all
, he never thought I had it in me.
right! I volunteered for the army

sp it al th at I al wa ys dream about appears

The ho
e A lc he m illa H os pi ta l. It is over there
to be th
ill. A s fa r as I k no w, things have not
in Silent H
en ri gh t th er e fo r a number of years.
be
meone called
Rumour has it that so
M as on an d a tr uc ker, I don't know his
Harry
d bad things there.
name, both experience
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Death lurks in the streets of Sh

epherd’s Glen. I was attacked in
front of our house by several wild
dogs. These are no normal stray
dogs - instead of a coat, they ha
ve only raw flesh, muscles and sin
ew.
They have a razor-sharp bite, mo
ve as swift as an arrow and ha
ve
an incredible jump.

Luckily I’ve been trained in hand

-to-hand combat, so I was able
to
defend myself against the beas
ts with my combat knife and oth
er
objects (axe, steel pipe...) which
I had found.

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th e ar m y, I ha d no time to say goodbye to

When I join ed These insects are
e he r. W e' ve al wa ys known each other. dangerous bloodsuckers.
Elle. I think I lov
to ge th er as ch ild re n and later we went to Before you know it,
We used to play they are hanging all over
high school together. your body. As soon as you
at te nt ion to th e fa ct that her fore-
She didn't pay much for
discover them, you need
de d S he ph er d' s G le n. It wasn't a burden to pull them off!
fathers foun
wa ys be en he ad st ro ng. She always does
her, but she's al
n' t k no w wh at sh e’ s up to these days.
her own thing. I do
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Dad and Wheeler stand for law and
order in Shepherd's Glen. It is known that
the deputy is untrusting and believes in all Elle gave me a walkie-talkie a litt
le while ago.

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kinds of conspiracy theories. We have been in close contact ev
er since.
He knows a policewoman from nearby The walkie-talking emits noise wh
en these beasts approach.
Braham who went missing approximately The closer they come, the louder
the static. Knowing this has
20 years ago in Silent Hill. That’s one of already saved my skin a few tim
es...
the reasons Dad forbade us to go there.
If anyone should actually find my
notes, know this:
Every monster has a weak spot,
if not several. Some of them you
have to disable initially with light
blows and then fell with a massive
blow once and for all. I also recomm
end that you study the attack
pattern of the creatures in case
you need to avoid them.

The doctors say that I am not in

a position to distinguish
between reality and fantasy. I am
firmly convinced that
they know exactly what is going
on here.
I see how demons kill patients!
ua actually
I would like to flee from this accu "Home, Sweet Home” as if! Josh
rsed place immediately,
but I don't trust myself to go int disappeared without a trace!
o the light. has become
It appears as if the creatures The nightmare that troubles me
are attracted by the lamp emotional wreck
light. Patients that require light a reality. I discovered Mother an
in order to be able to d stares out the
see something are their prey. Th - she sits in her rocking chair an
ey also react to any little
sound. If I want to get out of here window all day long.
alive, I should stay in the shua...
dark and be as quiet as possible. Dad has gone off in search of Jo
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t al l of th e te rr ib le things that happened

My Dad told me abou
gs . S ile nt H ill, lik e S hepherd's Glen,
thin
in Silent Hill. Horrible 0s.
e. T he y sa y th e st ories began in the 197
lies on Toluca Lak
ef ul an d co nt em pl at ive resort, metamor-
Silent Hill, the peac
evil!
phosed into something ange
wa it a m in ut e, a tr ucker?!... felt this ch
A trucker...
m or s, he wa s ca ught in a hellish

m
ve th e ru
first-hand. If you belie .
wo rl d an d wa s co nf ro nted with his own past
parallel

H ar ry M as on wa nt ed to spend his
n
Then in 1983, a certai Hill.
ca ti on wi th hi s da ug hter Cheryl in Silent
va
wa s an ac ci de nt sh ortly before they
There
th ei r de st in at ion : T he two were in a car
reached
came to, there was no
crash and, as Mason
da ug ht er . H e ra n to wards the town,
trace of his
to fi nd he r th er e. H e met an occult sect
hoping
called "The Order".

Cheryl
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Their leader, Dahlia Gillespie, wa

nted to conjure up a
demonic deity in Silent Hill.

Ten years later, 1993,8 James Sund

erland received a
letter from Silent Hill. The send
er was his wife.
Of course, this is nothing unusua
l, except that in this particular
case she had already been dead
for more than three years.
Sunderland drove towards Silen
t Hill, since his spouse was
waiting for him in their "special pla
ce". Supposedly the town was
wrapped in thick fog again.

Since then, no one has seen or he

ard anything from
James Sunderland. Oh yes, and
his wife's name was
Mary Shepherd-Sunderland. Wa
s she related to me?

In 20005, there were rum

ors that "The Order" was
searching for Cheryl Mason. Si
nce Harry suspected
this, they moved to a different
town to be safe. But,
apparently, they were tracked
down. Harry Mason
eventually killed one of the pursu
ers, but he was
acquitted in court.
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er of
Claudia Wolf, the lead Claudia Wolf
ilent
the religious sect in S
not let
Hill at that time, did
ecessor,
up. Just like her pred
ie , sh e wa nt ed to co njure up a mighty
Dahlia Gillesp
godlike demon.

s of Silent
One of the attraction
Lakeside
Hill is apparently the
Amusement Park.
d animal,
Does Joshua's stuffe

itc
are,
which I see in my nightm
n't
come from there? I ca
make any sense of it.
This is Robbie, Joshua's
stuffed animal. On the bottom:
Lakeside Amusement Park,
Silent Hill.
The name, Silent Hill, goes back to
the legend of the people, whose lan
d
was stolen from them.
They named this location ”The Pla
ce of the Still Spirits“. By ”Spirits“
they did not mean their dead relatives ,
only, but also the spirits that, as they
believed, inhabited the trees, the roc
ks and the water around them. In the
legend, it is said, that the holiest cer
emonies were held here.
But it was not the forefathers of tho
se people who now live in this tow
who stole the land from the people. n,
There were others, who came before
.
At that time, this town had another nam
e. But this name is now hopelessly
lost in the mist of time. We only know
that it had another name and that the
town was left at some point for som
e reason by the inhabitants. **

** from the book of ”Lost Memorie

s“ of Silent Hill 2
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ob se rv ed , I k no w so m e of what happened
As I have already
ye ar s, th e to wn wa s systematically
in Silent Hill. Over the Notice
ha d it s fi ng er in ev er y pie, especially ------
r"
undermined. "The Orde
ion s su ch as ho sp it al s and the orphanage.
in public institut There is evidence
ac es fo r th e pr op ag ation of their belief. that makes the
They used these pl connection between
the Order and the
native people clea
r. For example, a
r k id na pp ed pe op le and brainwashed ritual stone stands
de
It is said that The Or nt
in the forest of
. The orphanage in Sile
Silent Hill. The Or
ey be ca m e co m pl ia nt der names it the
them, so that th ”mother stone“ and
s no th in g m or e th an a re-education camp. nage nearby. The na
erected the orpha-
Hill wa
no t co m pl y wi th th e established rules were tive people also
And persons who did
used it at ceremoni
es to speak with
Gillespie or d" . H ow ev er , th er e was also a group the dead. They name
"L
Dahlia killed by order of the d the stone
the sect. „Nahkeehona“.
of volunteers who joined

n
s union was sealed
The end of the religiou
(Silent Hill),
after Dahlia Gillespie
her daughter,
with the assistance of
conjure up the god
Alessa, was unable to
and when the sect
of the fanatical sect
st es s, C la ud ia W olf (Silent Hill 3) also
prie
later on.
failed miserably in this

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Si le nt H ill is m uc h m ore commonplace

Ritual murderer, Walter Sullivan
(Silent Hill IV: The Room), As expected, a life in re at Evil“, ”The Order“, th
at is
ve he ar d, an d th e ”G
carried out the rest - he pushed than some ha ab ys s, fr om which all religions
the last priest of the cult om th e sa m e
sought, originated fr fa na tic al he ad s of the followers
and operator of the orphanage in , th an th e
Silent Hill, Toby Archbolt, originate: no part darker
from a cliff in Mexico. themselves.

SINCE THEN, THE ORDER

NO LONGER EXISTS!
Witc
At that time, the circular symb
ol of The Order
represented a deity. The two ex
ternal rings stand for
charity and resurrection. The th
ree circles in the interior
represent the past, the present
and the future. The sign
was normally drawn in red but som
etimes appeared in other
colors. Blue would mean that this
god is cursed.

The aforesaid deity is addresse

d as "Holy Mother". The
cult followers speak of "god" or sim
ply name the center of
their belief "she", since in many wr
itings and images of The
Order their god is represented as
a woman. This god is
supposed to bring the believers sa
lvation and paradise. ll ow in g pe rs on s we re el ec ted by the decision
The fo
Or de r of th e Or da in ed to serve the will
of the
: Ja me s L. , To ny E. , Justin H.,
Silent Hill apparently influences of our ho ly Lo rd
the total religion itself - N. , Je re my E. , Sarah R.,
Ryan N., An na L. , Ma tt
the town was built on holy ground.
Does this location possess
supernatural powers?
Jeffrey, E. Roger J.
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