The Harbinger Experiment | Creep Cast

Dr. Zimmerman, a scientist obsessed with the occult, initiated 'The Harbinger Experiment' in a secluded Alaskan bunker in 1987. His true goal was to open a temporary portal between worlds, allowing three random entities to cross over and be trapped within human hosts injected with a special compound. The hosts needed strong wills to survive possession, leading to the selection of humans.

Zimmerman believed he could open a portal, allowing three random entities to cross over to our world, and each one of these beings would be trapped within one of the three rooms. He wanted to use this technique to trap a spirit in a physical form by allowing it to enter a living being that had been injected with a compound mixture of Zimmerman's creation.

Three individuals—a young unemployed man, a woman addict, and an older drifter—were chosen as subjects. They were lured under the false pretense of an isolation study and selected because they lacked family or friends, making them 'expendable.' The experiment resulted in the woman's death, the young man's transformation into a violent creature, and the drifter's metamorphosis into an unnerving, 'gray alien'-like humanoid.

The first subject was a young man... The second was a woman... The third and final subject was an older man, drifter... One thing they all had in common was that none of them had any family or friends left. In short, no one would miss him, which is why they were chosen for the project. The woman lay in the center of the small concrete room. An expression of fear and terror was frozen into her gaunt face as she lay silent and lifeless on her back. A humanoid thing stood in the center of the room, staring directly at the camera, unmoving. It was wearing the jumpsuit that subject 3 had been issued. But this clearly was not the same man that had entered the room.

Following the initial chaos, a strange sound began to emanate from the bunker walls, gradually increasing in volume until it was identified as Tiny Tim's 'Living in the Sunlight.' This unnaturally loud and inescapable song, coupled with the disappearance of Subject 3 from his monitor, signaled a new phase of terror. The song's presence intensified the staff's fear and irritation, becoming a harbinger of the creature's approach.

It was a song. One of the staff members identified it as Living in the Sunlight by Tiny Tim. The song seemed to be on a loop and kept playing itself. Although we were able to identify the noise, we remained unable to identify its source. It seemed to be emanating from the walls themselves. It was around 8:30 that the ground itself began to shake once again... I had the sudden instinctual feeling to look over at Subject 3's monitor. It was gone.

As panic erupted among the staff, Subject 3's creature violently burst from the hallways into the control room, ripping Dr. Zimmerman in half in one fluid motion. The narrator, a doctor who had initially stolen medication, seized the opportunity amidst the chaos to climb the ladder and seal the hatch, abandoning his colleagues to their fate. He later realized the haunting song had followed him, indicating Subject 3's pursuit.

In the doorway stood a tall, smooth skinned figure with long limbs and eyes so dark and malevolent... pick up and rip the demon in half. One fluid moment. I reached my hands outwards and felt a wave of relief wash over me as my fingers came into contact with the hard metal rungs of the ladder. I gripped him and began to climb upwards as quickly as I could... I had to close the hatch and seal that thing down there. I began hearing a noise earlier today. Almost immediately, I recognized the noise as a very haunting and familiar song... Subject 3 is coming for me.