BANNED INFORMATION REGISTRY

On 07/13, a group of four college students decided to go camping in the Silverpine Woods, an area known for its dense, tall trees and heavy greenery. The location posed a complication: Silverpine was monitored by a fire watch station, and unauthorized camping in the woods was prohibited, with active patrols known to remove trespassers. The group consisted of Ethan Walker, Tyler Bennett, Madison Brooks, and Emily Carter. Ethan was not especially close to the other three, but he agreed to join them for the trip regardless.

On 07/14, the group arrived at the edge of the forest by RV, parking a safe distance away to avoid drawing attention. They carried in their camping equipment on foot, deliberately avoiding an open campfire that might alert the fire watch to their presence. Instead, they brought a small propane gas tank for cooking, along with several flashlights for use after dark. As they made their way deeper into the woods, Ethan began to feel a vague unease — not the ordinary nervousness of trespassing, but something harder to define, an instinctive discomfort he could not explain. He dismissed it and continued on with the group. They eventually reached a remote, isolated clearing deep within the forest and set up camp there, pitching four individual tents — one each for Ethan, Tyler, Emily, and Madison. The group arrived at the site between 7 and 8 PM. They stayed up talking and socializing until roughly 12–1 AM before settling in to sleep. The atmosphere that first night was subdued; without a fire or active flashlights, the campsite was left in total darkness and silence.

Ethan had difficulty sleeping, being unfamiliar with the location. Around 4 AM, while half-asleep, he began to hear faint footsteps outside his tent — not from a single person, but from what sounded like at least two individuals. He heard low, indistinct whispering and noticed a faint glow filtering through the tent fabric, consistent with the light of handheld fire sticks or torches. The figures approached to a distance close to the campsite, paused, and then continued on, moving away from the camp. Ethan lay still, unsure whether to dismiss what he had heard, but the memory of it stayed with him. The following morning, 07/15, around 9 AM, Ethan woke to the sound of the group's conversation outside and the smell of meat cooking over the propane stove. He joined the others and, over breakfast, brought up what he had heard the night before, asking if anyone else had noticed the footsteps or the voices. Emily said she may have heard something but wasn't certain. Tyler and Madison both said they had heard nothing at all. Around 11 AM, still unsettled, Ethan reasoned that if the people he had heard were fire watch staff, the group would likely have already been confronted and ordered to leave. The fact that no one had approached them directly left him with more questions than answers. Driven by this uncertainty, he decided to search the surrounding area on his own. The rest of the group teased him, calling him paranoid or overly cautious, but he insisted he wanted concrete answers. After several minutes of searching, he found a set of boot prints circling the perimeter of the camp. Following the tracks with his eyes, he noticed strange symbols hanging from the branches of nearby trees.

He brought the group over to show them what he had found. They acknowledged the symbols and footprints but suggested a more mundane explanation — that someone might have passed through or camped in the area before their arrival, and that footprints could remain visible in soft ground for days after being made. Despite their reassurances, Ethan spent the rest of the day uneasy, turning the symbols and the footsteps over in his mind, increasingly convinced that something was wrong, even as the others dismissed his concerns and joked at his expense. That night, as the rest of the group prepared for sleep after a long, otherwise pleasant day, Ethan remained awake, unable to stop thinking about the symbols, the footprints, and the strangers who had come close to the camp without ever making contact. Around 2 AM on 07/16, he decided to step out, flashlight in hand, intending to relieve himself at a tree some distance from the tents. As he walked, he resolved to use the opportunity to search the surrounding woods more thoroughly, hoping to find something solid enough to convince the group to leave Silverpine before anything worse could happen. Moving deeper into the trees, he began spotting the same symbols again, hanging from various logs along his path. He picked one up to examine it — the style was unfamiliar and unsettling in structure like the one he saw earlier and pointed it out to the group — before setting it back down and continuing on. He noticed an open clearing in the distance, unlike anything they had seen near the campsite, as though the trees there had been deliberately cut away. Curiosity pulled him roughly one hundred meters from the campsite to investigate.

The clearing turned out to be a perfect circle, stripped of vegetation, clearly maintained rather than naturally occurring. Approaching closer, Ethan found old, browned bloodstains soaked into the exposed earth, more of the same carved symbols cut directly into the ground and surrounding logs, and, at the center, the remains of a burned-out fire pit containing a partially dismembered human body. The remains were skeletal in places but still retained flesh in others, indicating the death was recent rather than old. The combination of the symbols, the blood, and the remains left no doubt in Ethan's mind that he had stumbled onto evidence of ritualistic killing — the work of a cult engaged in something far beyond simple trespassing. Shaken and nauseated, Ethan turned and hurried back toward the campsite, nearly tripping over roots in the dark as he moved between a run and a walk. Before he reached the tents, he heard his friends screaming — a sound that lasted only a few seconds before cutting off into total silence. He froze at the sound, then called out to them, picking up his pace, hoping against reason that it was some kind of prank rather than what he feared. When he reached the campsite and raised his flashlight, he was met with the sight of Madison's severed head and dismembered body. Sweeping the light further, he saw the tents soaked in blood and, standing over the scene, two figures dressed in black, wearing masks marked with the same carved symbol he had found earlier in the woods. One of the two was in the process of dragging Emily's dismembered body across the ground, with several severed body parts scattered nearby (which they belonged to Tyler's) and an axe slung across their back (Brittany Cooper); the other held a machete (Lauren Cooper) and appeared to be searching through the campsite for something, or someone.

Ethan stood frozen for only a second before the two figures noticed him. The one with the axe (Brittany Cooper) stopped dragging Emily's dismembered body and reached for the weapon; the one carrying the machete (Lauren Cooper) broke into a run toward him almost immediately. Ethan turned and fled back into the woods, screaming for help, with both figures pursuing him. He managed to outrun them long enough to double back and conceal himself beneath a fallen, hollowed-out log, holding his breath as he listened to them search nearby. From their voices, muffled but audible, he could tell both pursuers were female. He overheard fragments of their conversation — confusion over an unexpected fourth person at the camp, uncertainty about where he had gone, and a shared resolve to find him. Eventually, their search moved away from his hiding place, and he cautiously slipped out and began making his way toward the fire watch station, the only source of help he could think of. He arrived at the station in a state of visible shock — disheveled, dirt-covered, and clearly traumatized — shouting for help and stating that his friends had been killed. The fire watch worker on duty immediately contacted the Riverside Police Department. The worker's initial reaction was frustration that unauthorized campers had entered Silverpine at all, given how strictly prohibited it was, but he nonetheless escalated the situation to the police without delay.

Police arrived shortly after and took Ethan's statement, using his description to locate the campsite. A SWAT team was deployed into the woods to search for the attackers. They eventually located and subdued the two assailants using tasers, encountering only brief resistance before both surrendered. Continuing deeper into the forest, the SWAT team uncovered a much larger concealed encampment — the operational base of an extensive and long-established cult. In the resulting confrontation, several cult members fled into the woods and escaped, while others were captured, including the individual identified as the cult's leader. The leader did not survive long in custody, dying under circumstances that forensic investigators were unable to or declined to specify in the official record. Other members of the cult who were apprehended were not publicly identified. The two women directly responsible for the killings were identified as Brittany Cooper, 38, and Lauren Cooper, 34 — sisters belonging to the Cooper family of Riverton Village.

Following their capture, the sisters were transported for formal investigation and interrogation. Their statements were described as cold and unapologetic, asserting that the victims had defiled the sacred land of "Thyron" with their presence and that they were required to pay for this transgression with their lives. The remainder of the interrogation record was later redacted and suppressed by authorities, for reasons not disclosed in this file. The organization responsible was identified as the "Keepers of Thyron" cult, a group centered around the worship of a statue believed by its members to be a living deity, one that communicated its will through a chosen leader or "master." Following the raid, the statue itself was removed from the site and relocated to an undisclosed location, its current whereabouts not included in this record.

The trial of Brittany and Lauren still on process, The B.I.R. will notify soon.