Introduction[]
When 9th grade came around I met a friend during class named Caleb. We always played Roblox together everyday, mostly after school. When I moved houses causing our friendship to split apart, Caleb suddenly disappeared and a strange ROBLOX user reaches out to me.
My name is Sebastian Redwood and this is The Incident at Safford Lake.
October 9, 2016[]
During my Highschool years I would usually get bullied for being anxious and paranoid of well, pretty much everything. The whole school pretty much just saw me as a weird overreacting freak. The only way I could probably praise myself was when I opened my laptop at home and start playing some ROBLOX Arsenal for a couple of hours.
However this year was different, someone in my class named Caleb Jons understood what I was going through. I really liked him as much as he liked me, so we became best friends in the span of like, a week or two. We would always play ROBLOX together, specifically Arsenal and maybe even some Blood and Iron. We became this way until my dad found a job with a higher salary in a town far away, which made us move away from the town where Caleb lives.
June 23, 2018[]
My DM's with Caleb the night before he disappeared.
Today was the day that I moved out of my house, leaving Caleb behind. I could already see the tears behind Caleb's eyes when we were having our last face-to-face conversation together. Turns out, Caleb also has anxiety, specifically seperation anxiety. His mother told me that before I got in my car and drove off to our new house in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
We still talked online, and played ROBLOX together, but something was missing. His messages lost one thing, Happiness. I could already tell he was feeling sad behind those "LOL"s and "HAHAHAH"s he said, so often I would comfort him, saying stuff like I'd come visit him often, or that everything would be alright. However I never did. My parents didn't allow me to come visit his house often since they think it's a very long drive to Woodruff, the place he lives in. I liked sleeping over at his house, since there was a lake behind his house where we'd do all sorts of things there. Swimming, fishing, everything we could do. This lake was called Safford Lake, I found out while staying up at 2 AM browsing through Google. I was planning to go to his house next year for a sleepover, however something truly devastating happened which ruined the plan.
My DM's with Caleb's mother texting me about Caleb's disappearance
The profile icon for TheLakeCalledMe2.
Janurary 11, 2019[]
When I woke up at 11 AM since I stayed up all night playing Blood and Iron, I've noticed that I got a message from Caleb's mother sent at around 4 AM. She told me that she couldn't find Caleb anywhere in her house, and she was asking me if I knew where Caleb went. I was pretty confused so I responded No and asked why. I felt my heart drop when I saw the following text message she sent me. So I sent her screenshots of my DM's with Caleb. I also told my parents that Caleb was missing, however it felt like I was the only person dedicated to find my best friend Caleb. Caleb's mother pretty much just called the police, I knew because I saw some missing posters of Caleb while I was going to the grocery store with my parents.
Around this same day while I was playing Blood and Iron nonstop when I met this guy in my server named TheLakeCalledMe2, we became friends on ROBLOX. This guy acted really strange with me, he'd sometimes ask me questions like "Do you know how to swim?" or maybe even "What's your favorite lake?". I refused to answer both since it really reminded me of Caleb, my best friend who suddenly disappeared out of nowhere today. It was night time when I decided to ask him how tall he was and other stuff. I was left with my heart pounding when he answered.
"im 5'8 and im 17, how about you buddy"
"What the hell!?" I said to myself. Caleb was also 5'8, and he also turned 17 two months ago. I immediately went to bed after all that happened, plus it was 2 or 3 AM when I asked him that. After all that I would always refuse to talk to TheLakeCalledMe2, since he went deeper like asking questions like "What's your home address?" or even worse, when he notices that I refuse to respond to his questions, he would ask me "Sebastian? Are you there?" I eventually just started to completely ignore him.
January 18, 2019[]
While I was just playing a tycoon game late at night, I heard something from the speakers. It sounded like waves crashing into a wall. When I tried to move my mouse cursor to find what window is making the noise, the cursor wouldnt move. I thought my mouse just ran out of batteries, since it was wireless. So when I get some new batteries in my cabinet and replace them, my mouse still wouldnt work. All of a sudden my cursor started to move like it was being controlled by someone else, turns out my laptop was being controlled by someone else.
While I was just playing a tycoon game late at night, I heard something from the speakers. It sounded like waves crashing into a wall. When I tried to move my mouse cursor to find what window is making the noise, the cursor wouldnt move. I thought my mouse just ran out of batteries, since it was wireless. So when I get some new batteries in my cabinet and replace them, my mouse still wouldnt work. All of a sudden my cursor started to move like it was being controlled by someone else, turns out my laptop was being controlled by someone else.
The picture of Safford Lake being displayed on my laptop.
"What the hell is this!?" My mouse was no longer connected to my laptop. As I just watched my cursor move independently, it opened notepad and started typing.
"SEE YOU THERE." I was trying to delete it, but my keyboard would also ignore my actions. I started to become more paranoid as it started to type a line of dates.
"11/19/22" "11/20/22" "11/21/22" Was written down in each line. I immediately got my notebook and wrote down all those dates as fast as I could. When my notepad window was closed my webcam opened all of a sudden, the second I noticed that it was opened I immediately sprung into action and covered the webcam with my hands and put it inside my cabinet. When I look back at my laptop screen I realized I finally have control over my own laptop again. When I go back to playing ROBLOX to forget about what just happened. TheLakeCalledMe2 was right in front of me. I asked him, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?" at this point I was really paranoid because of what just happened a few minutes ago.
TheLakeCalledMe2 replied, "Why did you put the camera away?" I felt a shock through my bones. I immediately left the game, shut down my laptop and went to bed. It wasn't just a few hours later when I hear the same waves coming from my laptop. I slowly open my eyes and find out that my laptop displayed a picture of the Safford Lake, the lake that sat beside Caleb's house. As soon as I got up and closed my laptop, I get a text message on my phone.
My DM's with some random stranger that somehow knew what I just did.
"Who would be texting me this late?" I asked myself. I picked up my phone off my bed and checked who messaged me, it was somebody I don't know at all. For some shocking reason he knew that I just closed my laptop after it made those wave noises with the picture. As I sit down on my bed feeling really panicked I start typing. "WHO ARE YOU!?" "STOP MESSAGING ME!" This single text message made me feel like I'm no longer safe in this house. I stayed up the rest of the night, feeling scared that something could break into my house and kidnap me. I eventually fell asleep after the sun rose above the horizon.
When I opened my laptop after eating lunch, I was a bit surprised to see that my wallpaper has changed. It was a picture of Safford Lake, the same lake my laptop was displaying last night. I was a bit creeped out. Who is doing this and why? As I open ROBLOX, all my friends on my friends list were missing except for TheLakeCalledMe2 and Caleb. I was shocked to see that they were both playing a game together, It was called Safford Lake and it was made by TheLakeCalledMe2 himself. I check my ROBLOX chats and see that they‘ve been spamming my DM‘s with an invitation to the game. Since I wanted to talk to Caleb so badly, I joined them. As soon as I loaded into the game it was what I expected, a recreation of Safford Lake. Something was off though, the sky was unusually dark, and so was the game itself. As I walked to a path leading to the lake I saw TheLakeCalledMe2 standing right in front of me.
"Hello there, I didn't expect you to join us." Said TheLakeCalledMe2. He was pretty much leading me to the lake, since he doesn't want me to get attacked by "those". As soon as we reach the lake he invites me to take a seat beside him. I asked him a question.
"Where‘s Caleb?" I asked TheLakeCalledMe2 in curiosity.
"He joined the call." He replied. At this point I was completely confused. What's this call thing and what happens if you join it? I don't know. He stood up and asked me to follow him. So I did. We both went to a recreation of his house, and as I went inside I saw caleb inside, just standing there
"Caleb! Thank goodness you’re alive!" I exclaimed.
"He‘s dead." TheLakeCalledMe2 replied. I stood there with my mouth wide open in shock. He's not dead, right? If he was dead he wouldn't have been in the game in the first place. I look back at Caleb and he started moving a bit, and he slowly started spamming something.
"Join us! The call!" Caleb said. He slowly started to spam it in the chat, getting faster and faster with each message. I really don't think thats Caleb. He came to an end with the spamming, concluding with a message I would never want to see again.
"Im in the lake." Caleb said. I left the game terrified with what Caleb just said to me. What does he mean he's in the lake? Is he really dead? I have been left with only one choice, to visit the lake on the marked dates. I honestly don't know if im really gonna go there, but since its probably from TheLakeCalledMe2, a person who I see as a threat, I remind myself every now and then about those dates.
While I was eating dinner I heard something upstairs, it sounded like waves crashing into walls. I went upstairs and walked across the hallway to my door. As I got closer I heard whispers, I could only make out "Join the call", but I swear I heard more. My walking got slower and slower coming towards the door, with these whispers and waves sounding louder within each step. As I touch the door handle, the waves crashing and the whispers stop. I took a deep breath and opened it, and found out that I have been playing Safford Lake again, this time I was inside the lake. I looked around to see Caleb and TheLakeCalledMe2 circling around me, while slowly chanting over and over again.
"Thou shalt join my call in hopes for a greater future, the call of the Safford." was being spammed by both of them. I jumped up and swam to the recreation of Caleb's house. I opened the back door of his house, nothing inside. I check the chat and realize that they have concluded the spamming with one last message.
"The Lake sees you as a worthy man. 11/21/22" November 21 was Caleb‘s birthday, his 20th birthday. I was eager to come to his house on his birthday, I was actually really surprised that he invited me, but one question I have was left unanswered, why on his 20th birthday? The only way to end it all was to go to the lake on the three dates. Going back to the game, I can see that Caleb was right in front of me, and TheLakeCalledMe2 was behind me. I tried to negotiate with them, but they didn't respond to me, not even a single word. Eventually I got kicked out from the game without a reason. I didn't rejoin that game again, because I refuse to know what happens next. I continued to eat my dinner and go back to bed,
Everything seemed normal, but I know that unfinished business is lying around the corner.
November 19, 2022[]
Today was the day when I was invited to visit the Safford Lake after 4 years. A few weeks ago I got my drivers license and my dad allowed me to borrow his car. Back in 2019 TheLakeCalledMe2 hijacked my computer and gave me a list of dates, one of them is today. I started the car and found a quick route to Woodruff, the place Caleb had been living in. I texted the unknown number to tell him I'm on the way.