Delta Green-Lost in the Dark Operation Witch Hammer

Date: 17.1.2000

Agents and Friedlies:

• Leonard Baker (Agent Rose)
• Michael Buckh
• Mona Sanders (Friendly Revenant)
• Harold Splitriver

Case Details

Who?

Suspects:

• Olof Sagen aka. DJ Carcass
  • Norwegian citizen
  • Shared a hotel with Elvire
  • Used to play in "Celestial Scorn"
  • Deemed harmless?
• Ville Vignes aka. Blasmethor
  • Norwegian citizen
  • Earth auger operator
  • Had a band called "Profane Era"
  • Borther Rune was also a member
    • Committed suicide in 1996
  • Plays solo as "Blasmethor"
  • Criminal record (Norway):
    • Intimidation of a witness
    • False sworn statement
    • Perjury
    • Criminal mischief
    • Aggravated criminal possession of a weapon
    • Harming an animal trained to aid a person with disbility
  • Living alone on a farm
    • The farm protected by magic?
  • Bad reputation
  • Wants the end of the world?
  • Went deeper into occult after the death of his brother
  • His motivations and esoteric philosophy were not understood by Elvire
    • Belief in the "Gients of the North"
    • Elvire claimed to have seen him summon them to dance with the Aurora Borealis
  • Killed in self-defense
• Elvire Tandberg aka. Nightwitch
  • Norwegian citizen
  • Anthropologist
  • Used to date Rune (confirmed)
  • Plays bass in "Satanic Throne"
    • The band was playing on Saturday the 30th at a smaller club related to the Millennium Metal Mayhem
    • Did not live in the same hotel as the rest of the band
  • Lives in a house in Bergen with Kelsey Morgan
    • Has fish and birds as pets
  • Satan worshipper
  • Powers of the mind?
  • Left in the woods
• Julian Mercer aka. Necropoison
  • Lives in Boston
  • Key organizer of Fimbulvinter
  • Used to be in the band "Devoid of God"
  • Since then has moved to dark ambient played under the moniker "Vehement Master"

Local contact:

• Roald Ovesen
  • "A friend of Charlie"
  • Keeper of the Bergen Green Box
    • Contains "Big Bertha" among other items

What?

• Infiltration to the country as Canadian citizens
• Talking with the local contact
• Inventory of the Green Box
• Casing of locations
• Shadowing Elvire and Kelsey
• Kidnapping and interrogation of Elvire
  • Left in the woods without a cell phone to keep her away
• Attempted capture of Ville
  • Ville attacked Mona with an axe
  • Mona shot him with a silenced Mini-Uzi
• After return to the US both Sanders and Baker were possessed by the dead Norwegians
  • Both were successfully exorcised
• Mercer was heard to have murdered his family and disappeared
• Agents broke into the house owned by Mercer to investigate
  • Plenty of material recovered

When?

• 17-21.1.2000
  • Operation in Norway
• 29.1.2000
  • Possession of Baker and Sanders
  • Exorcism
• 11.2.2000
  • Break in to Mercer's house in Boston to investigate

Where?

• Bergen, Norway

Debriefing

Result of operation:

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Lessons learned:

Improvements (processes, intelligence, resources):

Leads and loose ends:

Attachments

Operation Witch Hammer Report by Agent Revenant