The Temple of Dagon

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-4-13/53992.html

This news story is about a historian, recently deceased, that had claimed that the first church built in North America was built in 1499 in Newfoundland and its ruins are probably buried below a town that exists today called Carbonear.

All of that is pretty normal stuff. The thing that got my attention was a little blurb that mentioned that this historian had left directions that all of her research, (her life's work), was to be destroyed after her death! That just struck me as something that you were likely to see in a Lovecraft story - a historian wanting all their work destroyed after they died without giving any real reason for it. It just made me wonder if there is some sort of interesting, sinister element at work here.

That's pretty creepy sounding. I might do the same.

Even if I was researching something really mundane like penut experimentation of groundhogs I'd still do something like that

this reminds me of a quote i read in a science book:

The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: "I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God."
"Don't you think God knows the facts?" Bethe asked.
"Yes," said Szilard. "He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts."
—Hans Christian von Baeyer, Taming the Atom

(i saw it in a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson)

A little? I think that is very Lovecraftish....

Interestingly, her ideas about the ruins of the church under Carbonear would have been lost when all her research was burned. However, she had sent some information regarding it to a publisher who had held onto the materials for a while.

Perhaps she had initially wanted to publish the theory, but then had later learned something more about the subject that she thought should die with her?

Sounds creepy.
This will make a good CoC scenario (and the fact the story about this scientis itself is real will add up atmosphere) !

we need to make a thread for peoples CoC scenerios...we should call it "Who wants to play with my CoC"

I think that's a good idea, I'm sure lots of us have some good CoC scenarios stretching tendrils into our brains even as we speak. I especially like the idea for the thread name.

I've never played Call of Cthulhu, but I could think of some stuff involving tentacle monsters from the deep and young busty librarians...

It Begins!
http://www.templeofdagon.com/forum/view ... 6570#16570