Police recover a deleted document from Mark Twitchell’s computer that reads like a script for a horror film. But was it more than just fiction? This episode originally published on October 22, 2024.
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What a curious species we have become. Willing, though no eager, partners of devices that somehow control us as we scroll. Devices that spit out bits and bytes of the world, cute puppies, intimations of Armageddon, swirling conspiracies. Some bits true, some not, some fact, some fantasy. and the bright, easy separating line of truth once merely blurred slips away.
Mark Twitchell made his living in that fuzzy space where fantasy seems very real and reality? Well, who knows? But of course he did. He was a movie maker, a storyteller, someone who imagined he could turn his make-believe into film and do it for a living. Well, at least he hoped to make a living at it.
As he rather excitedly told Detective Mike Tabler, that first time the police came to call, when they asked if he knew anything at all that might help them find the vanished Johnny Altinger. Not a thing, said Mark Twitchell. But if the detective wanted to talk movies, well, Mark was all in.
I love what I do. From the first day that I stepped on the set, that was when I knew that I just slept down. There's no going back. Anything else is crap. Nothing else would make me feel fulfilled in what I was doing, and I love what I do, so I just chased it with everything I had.
A true definition of passion. And it was a passion he happily shared in online chats with Renee Waring, that would-be filmmaker way off in Ohio.
It was, wow, I could be a real writer this time, you know? I could really help somebody develop a character in stories and entertainment.
And by this time, you were embracing, entertaining the idea that you might actually be able to work with this director.
Yeah. He said something about setting up a dedicated server. I wouldn't have to go to Canada. We'd be able to pass ideas and script ideas back and forth like that. Never have to meet each other, you know.
But it could be a paid job.
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