What The Cryptid? — Witness File WITNESS INTERVIEW — FILE #0474 INTERNAL — NOT FOR RELEASE Location: Moonlight Diner, Route 9, Harlan’s Creek, WVWitness: Marla Jenkins, 45 — Waitress, Moonlight Diner, Harlan’s CreekInterviewer: Mara VaneDCA Case Reference: DCA-HC-2024-0474 [Interview conducted on-site, Moonlight Diner, booth four. 7:14 AM. Diner open. Three other patrons present. Witness continues to refill coffee for adjacent tables at intervals throughout.] INTERVIEWER: For the record — Marla Jenkins, forty-five, employed here at the Moonlight Diner. You contacted the network on the fourteenth. You said it happened the night of the twelfth. WITNESS: The twelfth, yes. A Tuesday. I close Tuesdays. [DCA NOTE: Previous incident reports from unrelated witnesses in the Harlan’s Creek area cite Tuesday evenings at a statistically notable rate. Cross-reference file DCA-HC-2023-0391.] INTERVIEWER: Walk me through it from the beginning. What time did you finish your shift? WITNESS: Eleven-thirty. Maybe quarter to twelve. I do the napkins last. It takes as long as it takes. INTERVIEWER: And you were alone in the diner at that point. WITNESS: Pete — he’s our cook — he’d already gone. So yes. Just me. INTERVIEWER: Describe what you noticed first. WITNESS: The place settings. Booth seven. I’d already done booth seven. I always do booth seven third — it’s the one by the window that gets the most morning light, so I like it set before I leave. But when I came back through from the stockroom, it had been re-done. INTERVIEWER: Re-done how. WITNESS: Correctly. That’s the thing. Better than I’d done it, honestly. The fold on the...