DEAD CHANNEL / SPECIAL TRANSMISSIONA FILE KEPT OPEN BY MIKA SAIONJI
THE SEABROOK FILEALICE IS MISSING

SUPPLEMENTARY FILE / 18 ITEMS

More material.
Fewer certainties.

Collected photographs, loose documents and questions written by someone who did not sign their name.

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Accession note: These items did not arrive as a single dated record. Names, years and even geography disagree. We retain the contradictions; we do not use them to identify Alice or fix Seabrook to a real town. A visible detail is confirmed only as something on the page.

18 items

STREET / POSTER

A notice under other notices

A beach-access pole carries a missing poster, a garage sale and a restaurant menu. This copy says April 14; it conflicts with the June and July notices.

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MOTEL / POLAROID

Four people. Three faces.

Filed with the Room 17 material. No one in the image has been conclusively identified as Alice. The location where this print was found is reported, not established by the photograph.

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DOCUMENTS / REGISTER

The blank line

Room 17 has no entry. The sheet also says July 1996 and Oregon, and lists rooms beyond the twenty in the recorded account. Its relationship to that account is disputed.

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MOTEL / ROOM-INTERIOR

After the room was made

A floral bedspread, television, lamp and empty chair. Filed as Room 17 after cleaning. Nothing visible establishes who stayed, or when.

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MOTEL / ROOM-EXTERIOR

A door with a number

Room 17, photographed from the walkway. Closed curtains do not tell us whether the room is occupied.

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LOCATIONS / DUNES

Where access ends

Flags beside a private-access sign. Their purpose and the date of the photograph are not recorded. Compare the search account before assuming these are its flags.

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LOCATIONS / STATION

Office hours

The station in daylight. A parked cruiser, an ordinary entrance. No incident is visible. A building can be relevant without being a crime scene.

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LOCATIONS / TOWN-HALL

One upstairs light

“Records office?” is written across the print. The lit room has not been identified. The photograph supplies no reliable time.

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LOCATIONS / MILL

Why did she circle this?

The question is on the print. The “she” is not identified. The mill also appears on the annotated map; neither item supplies an owner or a reason for the circle.

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STREET / FESTIVAL

The festival goes on

Fireworks above the harbour; a torn missing poster in the foreground. This version supplies a surname, age and year that conflict with other items. Those details are not accepted as Alice’s identity.

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LOCATIONS / PUMP-INTERIOR

Inside the pump room

Filed as a later visit, long after the disappearance. Rust, standing water and marks on the floor cannot establish who was here during the search.

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STREET / PAYPHONE

Last call?

A boardwalk payphone has been circled. No call record, caller or time accompanies the photograph. The annotation is a question, not a recovered conversation.

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DOCUMENTS / PRESS

Search continues

A broadcast still pairs reassurance with a search headline. Its location caption and names belong to this item; they have not been reconciled with the other records.

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DOCUMENTS / CHRONICLE

The smaller headline

The festival takes the front page; Alice occupies a narrow column. The printed year, surname, age and disappearance date conflict with other material. This is a disputed clipping, not a verified biography.

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LOCATIONS / HARBOUR

Morning Star

A boat name is circled in red. No departure time or passenger list is attached. An empty berth elsewhere in the harbour would be an absence, not an explanation.

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STREET / PIER

After closing

Shuttered amusements and a missing poster reflected in glass. The photograph is undated. Darkness does not provide a reliable hour.

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LOCATIONS / HOUSE

The porch light

Filed as the family house, photographed from the street. No address or occupants are identified. The attribution remains unverified; a light left on cannot tell us why.

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DOCUMENTS / SEARCH-MAP

Complete, partial, excluded

An operations sheet separates completed sectors from restricted and unsearched areas. Its coastline and labels differ from the annotated town map. “Land search complete” does not mean every place was searched.

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