William Royden

I had my first psychic experience when I was three years old.

My name is William Royden.

In October of 2005, I was checking the local paper for job listings, looking to make a few extra dollars with my video camera between wedding gigs, when I came across an ad from a man looking for a videographer for a day.

He was offering $500 to anyone with a high-quality camera who was willing to sign a confidentiality agreement about the job.

I sent an email explaining why I was suitable for this task, and two days later I got a response.

I was to meet this man, who said his name was Forsh Cording, in the town of Robinsong, Virginia, where I was born and lived until I was 12 years old.

I returned there from my home in Annapolis two or three times a year to visit my grandfather.

According to Cording's deal, I would be paid in cash and I would be asked to turn over the tapes I had made at the end of the day, never speaking of them again.

Before the day I met Cording, he asked me to call him so he could explain what we would be shooting.

The footage he needed to acquire was for a personal research project about the area.

Mostly what he wanted to know on the phone was my history with the town of Robinsong.

And if I had been aware growing up of just how many unexplained crimes and disappearances there had been in the town, I truly was not.

He told me I might think of it very differently after the 9th of October.

I didn't understand what he meant, but I said I didn't think it would be a problem.

When I got off the phone, I looked up the name Forsh Cording online.

I could find out very little about my employer.

Other than that, he had apparently been a professor in the Ancient Studies Department at the University of Toronto within the past five years.

His name also came up in vague relation to something called the Projet du Meridional.

This was mentioned on three different academic sites having to do with the study of anthropology.

The phrase came up a fourth time on a dubious-looking site dealing with the paranormal.