"Guys! Guys! I've got it!" Oliver nearly busted the door of the apartment down.

"Someone forgot to take their meds." Myah retorted.

"No, listen! I just found the ideal topic that'll solve this whole problem!"

"If you suggest Roswell one more FREAKING TIME, I'm going to dropkick you out that window and no jury in the world would convict me of murder!" Terry snapped the pencil he was using and pointed a jagged end at his hyperactive roommate.

"No! I swear! This one is so much more legitimate!"

"The real question is how is what you're about to tell us any different than the last, like, seventeen suggestions you've pitched to us?" Elisa couldn't help but question.

“Because this one has a serous string of indisputable evidence.”

Terry stood up but Elisa held out a hand. "Let's see what you've got."

With the folder of papers and pictures he was carrying, he rushed the short distance to the apartment's corkboard. "Does anyone need what's on here?"

"Yeah, hold on." Myah snapped a few pictures of the board with her Bigfoot evidence and sightings. "Let's hope this 'indisputable evidence' helps us afford spending a few nights to look for this guy." When she was done, Oliver began ripping everything off the board. "I mean, it took a while to put that all on there," Myah commented "But, yeah. You know what, go ahead. Tear it all down." Oliver disregarded her as he began sorting through his folder.

"Ok, now there are people that are convinced that when the world ends, only a handful of the elite and wealthy will survive. Most of the world leaders, those that are so disgustingly rich they can live off the grid, so on." He put a small picture of a '2012' movie poster in the corner of the board. "However, I'M convinced that it's almost the opposite case."

"Elaborate." Terry stared at Oliver. The hyperactive roommate found their world map and began attaching images to it, connecting it all with string. "Within the last few years, there's been a rise in seemingly abandoned towns suddenly appearing. There have been documented occurrences in nine different countries across three continents. One fact that every single one of them share, along with being abandoned, is that there's no previous record of existing before the start of the current millennia." Oliver pinned three images on the board, connecting them to the US, Japan, and Australia.

A common thought crossed the minds of the other three and their skepticism was visible, so Oliver continued. "These are just a few of the recorded towns from eyewitness testimonies and official releases to the public. Now, the rise of these towns correlates with the numerous reports of strange, dare I say occult-like activity around the country and, circumstantially, the rest of the world; the attack at the University of Venator, the Transcontinental Pursuit Event, and the failed research laboratory in upstate New York. I did some digging and found both the sudden appearances of abandoned towns and these occult adjacent events were all tied to one moment: the Berryful Psychiatric Facility Massacre."

"Oliver." Sensing Terry's impatience, Elisa tried to get her roommate to focus. "What does any of this have to do with the end of the world and who might survive?"

"Hold on. I think Sugar Rush might be on to something."

"Thank you, Myah!"

"Well, then do you mind simplifying his incoherent bullshit?" Terry was about to cuss out Oliver for not getting to the point, but if Myah was agreeing with him, maybe there was something of merit to this.

"If you remember, the massacre was started by a group of patients who made claims like, 'We must find them' and 'Rejoice in unity.' Some of them even painted the second phrase on the walls with the blood of their victims. Other events like the Transcontinental Pursuit Event and the failed lab were also in search of something. Files on the patients in that lab made notes of-"

"Fixation on gold items, torn book pages, and bullet casings." Oliver interrupted Myah. She shot him a dirty look but he held a photocopied report of one individual. "I had the page in case you forgot."

Myah's glare let up slightly when she returned to the board. "Now, one patient, in fact the one most believe started this whole snowball, was noted to have found a town with cheap ghost hunting equipment."

"What does that matter?" Terry asked. "Oliver just said they've been found in nine countries. What does this one dude with a spirit box have to do with the end of the world and who lives on?"

"When the knowledge of such towns were made public, ninety percent of searches yielded nothing." Myah answered.

"The thesis is that anyone who actually bares witness to these towns will survive the fast approaching apocalypse." Oliver finished. A silence came over the apartment as Terry and Elisa stared at Myah and Oliver. Finally, Terry spoke up. "You two are batshit insane."