On an ordinary day, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake off the Maine coast would’ve made headlines, lead stories, and front pages, but on January 27, the media was singularly focused on covering and maligning President Donald J. Trump’s Cabinet nominees. So consumed was the media with denigrating Trump’s picks that the anomalous rattler, whose epicenter was five miles east of York Harbor, barely nudged the needle of noteworthy news.
After the tremors subsided, Real Raw News received an alarming call from a Red Hat claiming the earthquake was a side effect of an operation to destroy an “undersea base” anchored to the seafloor 500′ beneath the waves. The source sounded agitated, nervous, and sometimes arrogantly pious, and angered quickly when we expressed skepticism.
When asked who authorized the risky mission and what justified the action, he said, “Colonel Kurtz, that’s who, and that the base was there at all is the only justification we needed.”
He said Col. Kurtz learned of the “glowing” hemispherical structure, 250′ in diameter, last summer and began researching its purpose and origin. However, no opaque, dome-shaped base was mentioned in government and scientific literature. Nor could he find a patent for anything remotely similar, and his government contacts were unwilling or unable to shed light on the topic. Kurtz’s sole source, a former, disgruntled USGS geologist, had heard only rumors, whispers in the dark, of the base but was convinced it existed.
“The geologist could’ve been a disinformation agent, but his ‘rumors’ sure cemented Kurtz’s resolve to pursue the matter. The guy called the thing ‘an extreme force of negative energy’ but couldn’t say exactly what it did, how it got there, or who put it there. It was mysterious,” our source said.
“It cultivates evil for the sake of evil, a conduit of impurity furthering evil exponentially, possibly inhabited and accessible,” one of the rumors went.
Our source noted that Kurtz felt he had only one option: send divers to the GPS coordinates to confirm or debunk the geologist’s story.
Due to ongoing Red Hat ops at the time, the investigation was shelved until January. Midmonth, Kurtz chartered a vessel, staffing it with certified scuba divers qualified to use atmospheric diving suits, even though ocean depth, per nautical charts, was only 557.7 feet. Even at that depth, the divers had only 45 minutes of breathable oxygen.
What they found, our source said, shook them to their core. There it was, as the geologist claimed, an opaque, visibly impenetrable dome rising 50 feet above the seafloor. It was perfectly smooth and had no apparent entrance. If the dome had any occupants, they were oblivious to or ignored the divers maneuvering laboriously around the ominous domed vault. Every five minutes, for 15 seconds, it emitted a low-frequency hum and glowed prismatically, its surface illuminated with scintillating colors—reds, greens, blues—like cyclic RGB lights. One diver became disoriented and started swimming away from his companions, who had to pursue him and bring him to the surface. On the boat, that diver said that when the dome flashed and hummed, he was overcome with violent visions of murdering people indiscriminately.
“We don’t know why only one had violent thoughts. But this thing was something that shouldn’t be there, whatever it was. Col. Kurtz sent fresh divers down to plant explosives,” our source said.
He added that the demolition team affixed 150 RDX charges—a secondary explosive used extensively by the US military and effective underwater—with remote detonators to the dome. In haste, Kurtz ordered his men to trigger the blast before their boat was safely beyond the blast zone.
The detonation coincided with the earthquake; the boat was destroyed, and all hands were lost.
“Obviously we haven’t gone back down, but we assume we wiped out the dome. We regret the loss of life, but they didn’t die in vain. Whatever that was…maybe it was man-made or maybe, just maybe, it could’ve had extraterrestrial origins. Our explosives didn’t cause the earthquake, so whatever powered that thing did. And now it should be gone. We did the world a favor,” our source said.
Assuming his version of events is correct, the dome’s destruction marks the second time Red Hats’ reckless actions have unintentionally spawned an earthquake. As reported in April, Red Hats took responsibility for a quake in New Jersey after allegedly blowing up a subterranean hadron collider near President Trump’s Bedminster estate.