The Letter in the Sand

The Letter in the Sand

Sometimes we stop along a sunny beach to write letters and pictures in the sand. Sometimes, depending on when we arrive, we find one written if the waves haven't washed it away. That is indeed rare because we all know that the waves will come within a few moments.  But I must report a rather strange case that I saw at the beach up in Rhode Island.

I was on a holiday there at the time. Usually I head for the coast around twilight and simply comb the beach. One mid-evening suing my holiday, I was combing the local beach and I discovered a strange image or symbol scrawled on the sand that, very curiously,the waves had not washed away. I noticed that waves swept up every five to ten minutes. However, despite this, the symbol remained intact in its place.

I photographed it and waited to report in the following morning. Then, I headed for Providence. I entered the city round noon the next day and searched for a studio to develop the photograph. I found one about ten minutes later and the staff set to developing the photo. He was as amazed as I was. So he suggested that I show the photo to someone in the city college. It happened that the college was only twenty kilometers from Starry Wisdom Church.

The college librarian was on duty and agreed to look. I showed him the photograph immediately, explaining that it was scrawled on the sand in the beach. He was duly perplexed. He agreed that it was definitely neither customary scrawls nor naturally possible to remain on the sand during the tide.  Then, he searched for data about it.

After nearly one hour, he returned to his desk with a book of symbols and other occult references and thumbed it thoroughly.  About ten minutes later, he showed me the page on which the symbol was found. I almost jumped.

The symbol was archaic about 4000 years and used only in one place: the sunken and long-forgotten ancient city called R'yleh. It was used in reference to an enormous thing which the denizens called Cthulhu.