jun 10, 2020 - "ALBATROSS" writes a report on the distressing Public Safety Annoucement

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DOCUMENTATION ON RECOVERED MEDIA
Title: “Unusual Ad Council PSA 6/3/1998”
Tape Creator: Resident of Huntington, WV
Date of Origin: 6/3/1998
Location of Origin: Residence of [REDACTED] in Huntington, WV
Recovery Date: 7/17/2004
Recovery Location: At a Goodwill Donation Center in Huntington, WV

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
While recording an episode of Hollywood Tonight on the evening of 6/3/1998, a resident of Huntington, WV recorded an Ad Council PSA that people who claimed to have seen it said was “extremely distressing and disturbing”, unusually so for the Ad Council. The above PSA warns of an unidentified parasitic organism that is, given the language used by the PSA, very commonplace and guaranteed to be fatal should the organism “activate” in the human body. The video’s narration states that viewers should “spend time with their loved ones as much as possible” before this organism metamorphosizes, but at no point elaborates on what the organism is, what its infection vectors are, or how long it takes for this supposed metamorphosis to occur in humans.

After the conclusion of the PSA, many viewers called the Ad Council demanding answers regarding what the PSA was referencing, and that the PSA be pulled from the air, citing that the PSA “induced mass panic” in the Huntington area and could cause disruptions to the daily lives for the residents there. The Ad Council denied any knowledge of having created this particular PSA, and publicly dismissed it as a “malicious hoax”; however, it is interesting to note that the PSA has not aired at any point since the evening of 6/3/1998, and has fell out of the public memory in the years since.

Upon further investigation, no additional information on the parasitic organism shown in the PSA was discovered, and no public record of the “Center for Special Ailments” was found to exist. It is suspected the CSA is linked to the United States Department of Anomalies, but this connection remains tentative at this time.

THIS REPORT WAS WRITTEN BY “ALBATROSS” AND APPROVED BY THE MINERVA ALLIANCE ON 6/10/2020.

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