Aug 07, 2026
2 min read
Editor's Note: This audio was retrieved by a confidential source who works within Kurdizov Industries. If the contents are to be believed, Kurdizov may be more complicit than we first realized.
Recorded observations of Doctor Hannah Rutridge. I have finally received some living examples of a non-holotypical organism. Anecdotal evidence places such creatures all over the Palmyra Exclusion Zone but without actual specimens it was impossible to verify their existence, let alone begin to speculate on their nature and origins.
It has been a frustrating time to say the least, as while the Kurdizov campus is within the zone, it is kept very much isolated from the rest of Palmyra. I suppose I should be grateful for this from the point of view of personal safety, but as a scientist, it had been challenging.
The specimens live inside children's toy, a teddy bear, approximately ten inches in length from the head to the rump. The bear appears to be completely normal, though I have sent some samples to the materials lab to confirm this. It is dark brown in colour, made of synthetic fur fabric with a stuffing of polyester fibres. A label asserts it was manufactured in China and is flame resistant. The eyes are small hard plastic buttons. It is, as I said, entirely normal.
The bear was placed in a vivarium for observation. The specimens have hollowed out a significant part of the bear's head and torso. I believe eight to ten individuals live inside but have yet to fully verify this. Each specimen resembles an American house spider, parasteatoda tepidariorum, in morphology but larger in size and with proportionally longer limbs.
